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John B . Goodenough John Bannister Goodenough ( ; born July 25 , 1922 ) is an American materials scientist , a solid-state physicist , and a Nobel laureate in chemistry . He is a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at the University of Texas at Austin . He is widely credited with the identification and development of the lithium-ion battery , for developing the Goodenough–Kanamori rules in determining the sign of the magnetic superexchange in materials , and for seminal developments in computer random-access memory . Goodenough was born in Jena , Germany , to American parents . During and after graduating from Yale University , Goodenough served as a U.S . military meteorologist in World War II . He went on to obtain his Ph.D . in physics at the University of Chicago , became a researcher at MIT Lincoln Laboratory , and later the head of the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory at the University of Oxford . Since 1986 , he has been a professor in the school of engineering at UT Austin . He has been 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 , and , at 97 years old , became the oldest Nobel laureate in history . Early life and education . John Goodenough was born in Jena , Germany , to American parents , Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough ( 1893–1965 ) and Helen Miriam ( Lewis ) Goodenough . His father was working on his Ph.D . at the Harvard Divinity School at the time of Johns birth and later became a professor in the history of religion at Yale University . Johns brother , the late Ward Goodenough , was a University of Pennsylvania anthropologist . The brothers attended boarding school at Groton in Massachusetts . In 1944 , John Goodenough received a B.S . in Mathematics , summa cum laude from Yale University , where he was a member of Skull and Bones . After serving in the US Army as a meteorologist in World War II , Goodenough went to the University of Chicago to complete a masters and was awarded a Ph.D . in physics in 1952 . His doctoral supervisor was electrical breakdown theorist Clarence Zener and he worked and studied with physicists , including Enrico Fermi and John A . Simpson . While at Chicago , he met and married history graduate student Irene Wiseman . Career and research . MIT Lincoln Laboratory . After his studies , Goodenough was a research scientist and team leader at MITs Lincoln Laboratory for 24 years . During this time he was part of an interdisciplinary team responsible for developing random access magnetic memory . His research efforts on RAM led him to develop the concepts of cooperative orbital ordering , also known as a cooperative Jahn–Teller distortion , in oxide materials , and subsequently led to his developing the rules for the sign of the magnetic superexchange in materials , now known as the Goodenough–Kanamori rules ( with ) . . Tenure at the University of Oxford . During the late 1970s and early 1980s , he continued his career as head of the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory at University of Oxford . Among his work at Oxford , Goodenough has been credited with significant research essential to the development of commercial lithium-ion rechargeable batteries . Goodenough was able to expand upon previous work from M . Stanley Whittingham on battery materials , and found in 1980 that by using LiCoO as a lightweight , high energy density cathode material , he could double the capacity of lithium-ion batteries . Goodenoughs work was commercialized through Sony by Akira Yoshino , who had contributed additional improvements to the battery construction . Goodenough received the Japan Prize in 2001 for his discoveries of the materials critical to the development of lightweight high energy density rechargeable lithium batteries , and he , Whittingham , and Yoshino shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their research in lithium-ion batteries . Professor at University of Texas . Since 1986 , Goodenough has been a Professor at The University of Texas at Austin in the Cockrell School of Engineering departments of Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering . During his tenure there , he has continued his research on ionic conducting solids and electrochemical devices ; he stated that he continued to study improved materials for batteries to help promote the development of electric vehicles and help reduce the dependency on fossil fuels . Arumugam Manthiram and Goodenough discovered the polyanion class of cathodes . They showed that positive electrodes containing polyanions , e.g. , sulfates , produce higher voltages than oxides due to the inductive effect of the polyanion . The polyanion class includes materials such as lithium-iron phosphates that are used for smaller devices like power tools . His group has also identified various promising electrode and electrolyte materials for solid oxide fuel cells . He currently holds the Virginia H . Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering . Goodenough still works at the university at age 98 as of 2021 , hoping to find another breakthrough in battery technology . On February 28 , 2017 Goodenough and his team at the University of Texas published a paper in the journal Energy and Environmental Science on their demonstration of a glass battery , a low-cost all-solid-state battery that is noncombustible and has a long cycle life with a high volumetric energy density , and fast rates of charge and discharge . Instead of liquid electrolytes , the battery uses glass electrolytes that enable the use of an alkali-metal anode without the formation of dendrites . However , this paper was met with widespread skepticism by the battery research community and remains controversial after several follow-up works . The work was criticized for a lack of comprehensive data , spurious interpretations of the data obtained , and that the proposed mechanism of battery operation would violate the first law of thermodynamics . In April 2020 , a patent was filed for the glass battery on behalf of the LNEG ( National Laboratory of Energy and Geology ) in Portugal , the University of Porto , Portugal and the University of Texas . Advisory work . In 2010 , Goodenough joined the technical advisory board of Irvine , California-based Enevate , a silicon-dominant Li-ion battery technology startup . Goodenough also currently serves as an adviser to the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research ( JCESR ) , a collaboration led by Argonne National Laboratory and funded by the Department of Energy . Since 2016 Goodenough has also worked as an adviser for Battery500 , a national consortium led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ( PNNL ) and partially funded by the Department of Energy . Fundamental investigations . On the fundamental side , his research has focused on magnetism and on the Metal–insulator transition behavior in transition-metal oxides . Along with Junjiro Kanamori , Goodenough developed a set of semi-empirical rules to predict magnetism in these materials in the 1950s and 1960s , now called the Goodenough–Kanamori rules , forming the basis of superexchange , which is a core property for high-temperature superconductivity . Distinctions . Professor Goodenough is a member of the National Academy of Engineering , the National Academy of Sciences , French Academy of Sciences , the Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas , Físicas y Naturales of Spain , and the National Academy of Sciences , India . He has authored more than 550 articles , 85 book chapters and reviews , and five books , including two seminal works , Magnetism and the Chemical Bond ( 1963 ) and Les oxydes des metaux de transition ( 1973 ) . Goodenough was a co-recipient of the 2009 Enrico Fermi Award for his work in lithium-ion batteries , alongside Siegfried S . Hecker of Stanford University who had received the award for his work in plutonium metallurgy . In 2010 he was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society . On February 1 , 2013 , Goodenough was presented with the National Medal of Science by President Barack Obama of the United States . He was awarded the Draper Prize in engineering . In 2015 he was listed along with M Stanley Whittingham , for pioneering research leading to the development of the lithium-ion battery on a list of Clarivate Citation Laureates for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry by Thomson Reuters . In 2017 he received the Welch Award in Chemistry and in 2019 he was awarded the Copley Medal of the Royal Society . The Royal Society of Chemistry granted a John B Goodenough Award in his honor . Goodenough received an honorary C.K . Prahalad award from Corporate EcoForum ( CEF ) in 2017 . CEFs founder Rangaswami commented , John Goodenough is evidence of imagination being put to work for the greater good . Were thrilled to recognize his lifetime of achievements and are hopeful that his latest discovery will have major implications for the future of sustainable battery storage . Goodenough was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on October 9 , 2019 , for his work on lithium-ion batteries , along with M . Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino . He is the oldest person to be awarded the Nobel Prize . Works . Articles . - Lightfoot , P. ; Pei , S . Y. ; Jorgensen , J . D. ; Manthiram , A. ; Tang , X . X . & J . B . Goodenough . Excess Oxygen Defects in Layered Cuprates , Argonne National Laboratory , The University of Texas-Austin , Materials Science Laboratory United States Department of Energy , National Science Foundation , ( September 1990 ) . - Argyriou , D . N. ; Mitchell , J . F. ; Chmaissem , O. ; Short , S. ; Jorgensen , J . D . & J . B . Goodenough . Sign Reversal of the Mn-O Bond Compressibility in LaSrMnO Below T : Exchange Striction in the Ferromagnetic State , Argonne National Laboratory , The University of Texas-Austin , Center for Material Science and Engineering United States Department of Energy , National Science Foundation , Welch Foundation , ( March 1997 ) . - Goodenough , J . B. ; Abruna , H . D . & M . V . Buchanan . Basic Research Needs for Electrical Energy Storage . Report of the Basic Energy Sciences Workshop on Electrical Energy Storage , April 2-4 , 2007 , United States Department of Energy , ( April 4 , 2007 ) .