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John B. Goodenough
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Person

John B. Goodenough

1922 – 2023 · aged 101

American materials scientist (1922–2023)

Born
25 Jul 1922 · Jena
Died
25 Jun 2023 · Austin

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 116 years
  1. 25 Jul 1922BornBorn in Jena
  2. 1939 – 1945WarWorld War II
  3. 1967AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Bordeaux
  4. 1975AwardCentenary Prize
  5. 1989AwardVon Hippel Award
  6. 1995AwardACM Fellow
  7. 1999AwardOlin Palladium Award
  8. 2001AwardJapan Prize
  9. 2002AwardHonorary doctorate of the University of Santiago de Compostela
  10. 2009AwardEnrico Fermi Award
  11. 2010AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
  12. 2011AwardNational Medal of Science
  13. 2014AwardCharles Stark Draper Prize
  14. 2015AwardThe Eric and Sheila Samson Prime Minister's Prize for Innovation in Alternative Fuels for Transportation
  15. 25 Jun 2023DiedDied in Austin

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1922 – 2023).

  1. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  2. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  3. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  4. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  5. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1938Munich Agreement
  7. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  8. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  9. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  10. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  11. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  12. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  13. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  14. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  15. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  16. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  17. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  18. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  19. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  20. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  21. 1956Suez Crisis
  22. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  23. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  24. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  25. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  26. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  27. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  28. 1968Prague Spring
  29. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  30. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  31. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  32. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  33. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  34. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  35. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  36. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  37. 1985Schengen Agreement
  38. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  39. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  40. 19901990 FIFA World Cup

Biography

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

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.

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