Co-inventor of lithium-ion batteries and co-winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, John Bannister Goodenough 25th June 2023 passed away at 101.

* He shared the 2019 Nobel Prize with Stan Whittingham, a British-American scientist, for discovering that lithium may be held within sheets of titanium sulphide.

* He was also instrumental in the invention of computer RAM (Random Access Memory).

* According to the Nobel Prize website, John Goodenough was born in Jena, Germany to American parents. After studying mathematics at Yale University, he joined US Army as a meteorologist during the Second World War.

* He then attended the University of Chicago, where he earned a PhD in physics in 1952. He then worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Oxford University in the United Kingdom.

* He had formerly taught at the University of Texas at Austin.

* Witness to Grace, Goodenough's autobiography, was published in 2008, and he described it as "my personal history." The book discusses both science and spirituality.

Born : 25 July 1922, Jena, Germany

Died : 25 June 2023.

Source : India Times