• News
  • Movies
  • Money
  • Health
  • Videos
More
  • Kerala
  • India
  • NRI
  • World
  • Offbeat
  • Talkathon
  • Good News
  • Crime Beat

3 win Nobel in Chemistry for work on lithium-ion batteries

The prize went to John B Goodenough of the University of Texas; M Stanley Whittingham of the State University of New York at Binghamton; and Akira Yoshino of Asahi Kasei Corporation and Meijo University in Japan.

Oct 9, 2019, 04:39 PM IST
T- T T+
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
X
×
A screen displays the laureates of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, from left, John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino "for the development of lithium-ion batteries". (AP photo)

Stockholm: Three scientists on Wednesday were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their contributions to the development of lithium-ion batteries, which have reshaped energy storage and transformed cars, mobile phones and many other devices in an increasingly portable and electronic world.

The prize went to John B Goodenough of the University of Texas; M Stanley Whittingham of the State University of New York at Binghamton; and Akira Yoshino of Asahi Kasei Corporation and Meijo University in Japan.

Goran Hansson, secretary general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, said the prize was about "a rechargeable world."

In a statement, the committee said lithium-ion batteries "have revolutionized our lives" — and the laureates "laid the foundation of a wireless, fossil fuel-free society." The Nobel committee said the lithium-ion battery has its roots in the oil crisis in the 1970s, when Whittingham was working to develop methods aimed at leading to fossil fuel-free energy technologies.

The prizes come with a 9-million kronor (USD 918,000) cash award, a gold medal and a diploma that are conferred on December 10 — the anniversary of Nobel's death in 1896 — in Stockholm and in Oslo, Norway.

Prize founder Alfred Nobel, a Swedish industrialist who invented dynamite, decided the physics, chemistry, medicine and literature prizes should be awarded in Stockholm, and the peace prize in Oslo.

On Tuesday, Canadian-born James Peebles won the Physics Prize for his theoretical discoveries in cosmology together with Swiss scientists Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, who were honored for finding an exoplanet — a planet outside our solar system — that orbits a solar-type star.

Americans William G Kaelin Jr and Gregg L. Semenza and Britain's Peter J Ratcliffe won the Nobel Prize for advances in physiology or medicine on Monday. They were cited for their discoveries of "how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability."

Two literature laureates are to be announced Thursday, because last year's award was suspended after a scandal rocked the Swedish Academy. The coveted Nobel Peace Prize is Friday and the economics award on Monday.

(AP)

 

PRINT
EMAIL
COMMENT
 

Related Articles

Trio win Nobel Chemistry Prize for evolution research
News |
Technology |
Nobel prize in physics goes to discovery of gravitational waves
Technology |
Three US geneticists take 2017 Nobel Medicine Prize
Education |
Tiny machines win Chemistry Nobel prize
 
 
  • Tags :
    • science and technology
    • Chemistry Nobel Prize
    • Nobel Prize
More from this section
joe biden
Biden pushes unity two days before taking over crisis-laden White House
US
Ahead of inauguration Washington DC converted into garrison city as threat looms large
Kabul
Gunmen kill two women judges in Afghan capital, says official
trump
Trump to fly to Florida shortly before Biden's inauguration
Covid Vaccine
Norway probes 23 elderly patients' death after Pfizer vaccination
News in Videos
News+ Kerala India NRI World Columns Features Offbeat Good News Crime
Leisure Movies & Music Sports Travel Books
Learn Money Education Agriculture
Lifestyle Health Tech Food Astrology
Multimedia Gallery Videos Mojo News News In Pics
Our Network Malayalam Print Mathrubhumi News TV Kappa TV Club FM Seed Silver Bullet FindHome Media School MBIFL Redmic
E-Paper
Subscription
Buy Books
Magazines
Classifieds
Archives
 
  • E-Paper
  • Subscription
  • Buy Books
  • Magazines
  • Classifieds
  • Archives
© Copyright Mathrubhumi 2021. All rights reserved.
About Us Contact Us Privacy Policy
Terms of Use Archives
Ad Tariff Download App Classifieds
Buy Books Subscription e-Subscription
 
         
© Copyright Mathrubhumi 2021. All rights reserved.