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John B. Goodenough

American materials scientist (1922–2023)

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John Bannister Goodenough ( GUUD-in-uf; July 25, 1922 – June 25, 2023) was an American materials scientist, a solid-state physicist, and a Nobel laureate in chemistry. From 1986 he was a professor of Materials Science, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, at the University of Texas at Austin. He is credited with

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Born
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Place of birth
Jena wd
Died
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Place of death
Austin wd
Citizenship
United States wd
Occupation
physicist, inventor, meteorologist, university teacher wd
Education
Yale University, University of Chicago wd

Awards wd

  • Fellow of the American Physical Society (1962)
  • honorary doctor of the University of Bordeaux (1967)
  • Centenary Prize (1975)
  • Von Hippel Award (1989)
  • ACM Fellow (1995)
  • Olin Palladium Award (1999)
  • Japan Prize (2001)
  • honorary doctorate of the University of Santiago de Compostela (2002)
  • Enrico Fermi Award (2009)
  • Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2010)
  • National Medal of Science (2011)
  • Charles Stark Draper Prize (2014)
  • The Eric and Sheila Samson Prime Minister's Prize for Innovation in Alternative Fuels for Transportation (2015)
  • Clarivate Citation Laureates (2015)
  • Welch Award in Chemistry (2017)

About

identifying the Goodenough–Kanamori rules of the sign of the magnetic superexchange in materials, with developing materials for computer random-access magnetic memory and with inventing cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries.

Goodenough was awarded the National Medal of Science, the Copley Medal, the Fermi Award, the Draper Prize, and the Japan Prize. The John B. Goodenough Award in materials science is named for him. In 2019, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino; at 97 years old, he became the oldest Nobel laureate in history. From August 27, 2021, until his death, he was the oldest living Nobel Prize laureate.

Questions

When was John B. Goodenough born?
John B. Goodenough was born on 25 July 1922 in Jena.
Where did John B. Goodenough study?
John B. Goodenough was educated at Yale University, University of Chicago.

Sources

  1. Wikipedia (English): John B. Goodenough · CC BY-SA 4.0
  2. Wikidata item Q906529 · CC0 1.0
  3. Image: Nobel 9 Dec 2019 029 copy (49204051647) (cropped).jpg by US Embassy Sweden (CC BY 2.0)

Last updated · facts checked 4 November 2026

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