17 Facts About John Goodenough

John Bannister Goodenough is an American materials scientist, a solid-state physicist, and a Nobel laureate in chemistry.

John Goodenough is a professor of Mechanical, Materials Science, and Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.

John Goodenough 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.

John Goodenough was born in Jena, Germany, to American parents, Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough and Helen Miriam Goodenough.

John Goodenough has a half-sister from his father's second marriage, Ursula Goodenough, who is an emeritus professor of biology at Washington University in St Louis.

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John Goodenough's work was commercialized through Sony by Akira Yoshino, who had contributed additional improvements to the battery construction.

John 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.

Since 1986, John 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.

John Goodenough's group has identified various promising electrode and electrolyte materials for solid oxide fuel cells.

John Goodenough currently holds the Virginia H Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering.

In 2010, John Goodenough joined the technical advisory board of Irvine, California-based Enevate, a silicon-dominant Li-ion battery technology startup.

John Goodenough currently serves as an adviser to the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research, a collaboration led by Argonne National Laboratory and funded by the Department of Energy.

Since 2016 John Goodenough has worked as an adviser for Battery500, a national consortium led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and partially funded by the Department of Energy.

Professor John Goodenough was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1976 for his work designing materials for electronic components and clarifying the relationships between the properties, structures, and chemistry of substances.

John Goodenough is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, French Academy of Sciences, the Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales of Spain, and the National Academy of Sciences, India.

John Goodenough has authored more than 550 articles, 85 book chapters and reviews, and five books, including two seminal works, Magnetism and the Chemical Bond and Les oxydes des metaux de transition .

John Goodenough is the oldest person to be awarded the Nobel Prize.