Goodenough, Nobel laureate who gave the world Li-ion batteries, passes away
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John Bannister Goodenough, the American co-inventor of Lithium-ion batteries and a co-winner of 2019 Nobel prize for Chemistry, has passed away. He was just a month short of turning 101. Goodenough also played a significant role in the development of Random Access Memory (RAM) for computers.
    • Novemberwind@beehaw.org
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      2 years ago

      “Hey, you, don’t you want to get a proper name, like Miller or Smith?”

      “Nah, this one is good enough.”

  • wet_lettuce@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    I was just about to post this article (Thankfully lemmy warns you that it might be a duplicate!).

    This guy isn’t a household name by any stretch but this invention quite literally changed the world. Few people have as far reaching of an impact as he had. Almost 101 years old too. I think he did Good…enough.

    (I’ll see myself out)

  • Rentlar@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    Sad to lose such an amazing mind… but my own mind can’t help but think of this:

    Never let Peter Perfect be the enemy of John Goodenough.

  • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

    I seem to recall hearing a few years ago that the inventor of Li Ion batteries was working on a successor battery technology. Was that him? And did he finish?