Possibly one of the most important invention of the 20th century
His other accomplishments.
Dr Goodenough started his career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked for 24 years and helped develop random-access memory for the computer.
There, he became one of the founders of the modern theory of magnetism, which has played a pivotal role in the field of telecommunications.
We lost a great one.
Heck of a last name for someone who did so damn much to move technology forward.
Pretty sure he’s just recharging. Someone double-check!
I’m gonna have to rank penicillin and transistors above lithium batteries.
Wow he got the Nobel Prize in Chemistry at 97 years old and the article makes it sound like he was working on new battery tech pretty recently.
He was working on some solid state battery chemistries.
Joe Scott on YouTube made a video about him a few years ago that talks about what he was working on: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g0nA8CfxBqA
The relevant part starts a bit after the four minute mark
“I don’t want man, in his greed to exploit the resources of Earth, to turn what should be a garden into a desert” – John B. Goodenough