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Podcast Extra: Q&A with Nobel Prize winner John B Goodenough

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🗓️ 9 October 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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In this Podcast Extra, we speak to John B Goodenough, from the University of Texas at Austin, in the US. Today, John was announced as one of the joint winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Reporter Benjamin Thompson went along to the Royal Society in London to chat with him.

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Hi, listeners, Benjamin here with another quick podcast extra just ahead of the main show. Today, the winners of the

0:39.5

Nobel Prize for Chemistry were announced. One of them is John B. Good Enough from the University of

0:44.9

Texas at Austin in the US. John was awarded his prize for his work in the development of something

0:50.7

that almost everyone takes for granted, and that is the lithium-ion battery.

0:56.3

John happened to be over in the UK today, as he's also about to be awarded the Royal Society's

1:00.9

Copley Medal. So I popped over to the Royal Society here in London for a quick chat with him.

1:06.4

Well, John, today you were announced as one of the co-winners of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

1:10.5

How are you feeling right now? Well, I, today you were announced as one of the co-winners of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. How are you feeling right now?

1:12.4

Well, I'm very grateful that I had that honor.

1:17.6

It's splendid, but I'm the same person I was before.

1:23.9

And I understand you missed the call from the Nobel Committee this morning.

1:28.1

When did they manage to actually reach you?

1:30.6

They didn't reach me, but somebody with a cell phone managed to get the information on the phone this morning

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