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American Goodenough, at 97, becomes the oldest winner of a Nobel
prize. He shared the award equally with Whittingham from Britain
and Yoshino of Japan.
"This rechargeable battery laid the foundation of wireless
electronics such as mobile phones and laptops," the Royal
Swedish Academy of Sciences said in a statement on awarding the
9 million Swedish crown ($906,000) prize.
"It also makes a fossil fuel-free world possible, as it is used
for everything from powering electric cars to storing energy
from renewable sources."
Whittingham developed the first functional lithium battery in
the early 1970s. Goodenough doubled the battery's potential in
the following decade and Yoshino eliminated pure lithium from
the battery, making it much safer to use.
The prizes for achievements in science, literature and peace
were created and funded in the will of Swedish dynamite inventor
and businessman Alfred Nobel and have been awarded since
1901.(Graphic of Nobel laureates - https://graphics.reuters.com/NOBEL-PRIZE/010050ZC27H/index.html)
The Nobel prizes for medicine and physics were awarded earlier
this week. The awards for literature, peace and economics will
be announced in the next few days.
(Reporting by Niklas Pollard and Simon Johnson; additional
reporting by Anna Ringstrom, Johannes Hellstrom, Johan Ahlander,
Colm Fulton and Helena Soderpalm in Stockholm, Editing by
Timothy Heritage)
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