John B. Goodenough
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Irene Wiseman
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Fields | Physics |
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Thesis | A theory of the deviation from close packing in hexagonal metal crystals (1952) |
Doctoral advisor | Clarence Zener |
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John Bannister Goodenough (
Goodenough was born in
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.[5] From August 27, 2021, until his death, he was the oldest living Nobel Prize laureate.
Personal life and education
John Goodenough was born in
Goodenough suffered from dyslexia. At the time, dyslexia was poorly understood by the medical community, and Goodenough's condition went undiagnosed and untreated.[11] Although his primary schools considered him "a backward student," he taught himself to write so that he could take the entrance exam for Groton School, the boarding school where his older brother was studying at the time.[11][12] He was awarded a full scholarship.[8] At Groton, his grades improved and he eventually graduated at the top of his class.[11][13] He also developed an interest in exploring nature, plants, and animals.[14] Although he was raised an atheist, he converted to Protestant Christianity in high school.[12][15][16]
After Groton, Goodenough graduated summa cum laude from Yale, where he was a member of Skull and Bones.[17] He completed his coursework in early 1943 (after just two and a half years) and received his degree in 1944,[18] covering his expenses by tutoring and grading exams.[17] He had initially sought to enlist in the military following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, but his mathematics professor convinced him to stay at Yale for another year so that he could finish his coursework, which qualified him to join the U.S. Army Air Corps' meteorology department.[12][17]
After World War II ended, Goodenough obtained a master's degree and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago, the latter in 1952.[12][19] His doctoral supervisor was Clarence Zener, a theorist in electrical breakdown; he also worked and studied with physicists, including Enrico Fermi and John A. Simpson. While at Chicago, he met Canadian history graduate student Irene Wiseman.[20][21] They married in 1951.[11][8] The couple had no children.[11] Irene died in 2016.[21]
Goodenough turned 100 on July 25, 2022.[22] He died at an assisted living facility in Austin, Texas, on June 25, 2023, one month shy of what would have been his 101st birthday.[23][24][11]
Career and research
Over his career, Goodenough authored more than 550 articles, 85 book chapters and reviews, and five books, including two seminal works, Magnetism and the Chemical Bond (1963)[25] and Les oxydes des metaux de transition (1973).[26]
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
After his studies, Goodenough was a research scientist and team leader at the
University of Oxford
The U.S. government eventually terminated Goodenough's research funding, so during the late 1970s and early 1980s, he left the United States and continued his career as head of the
Although Goodenough saw a commercial potential of batteries with his LiCoO2 and LiNiO2 cathodes and approached
The work at Sony on further improvements to Goodenough's invention was led by Akira Yoshino, who had developed a scaled up design of the battery and manufacturing process.[33] 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,[34] and he, Whittingham, and Yoshino shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their research in lithium-ion batteries.[33]
University of Texas
From 1986, Goodenough was a professor at The
Goodenough still worked at the university at age 98 as of 2021,[42] hoping to find another breakthrough in battery technology.[43][44]
On February 28, 2017, Goodenough and his team at the University of Texas published a paper in the
In April 2020, a patent was filed for the glass battery on behalf of Portugal's National Laboratory of Energy and Geology (LNEG), the University of Porto, Portugal, and the University of Texas.[51]
Advisory work
In 2010, Goodenough joined the technical advisory board of Enevate, a
Distinctions
Goodenough was elected a member of the
Goodenough received the following awards:
- Fermi Award (2009), alongside metallurgist Siegfried Hecker[58]
- National Medal of Science (2013), presented by U.S. President Barack Obama[59]
- Draper Prize in engineering (2014).[60]
- Welch Award in Chemistry (2017)[61][62]
- C.K. Prahalad Award (2017)[63][64]
- Copley Medal of the Royal Society (2019)[65]
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2019), alongside M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino[5]
Goodenough was 97 when he received the Nobel Prize. He remains the oldest person ever to have been awarded the prize.
Works
Selected articles
- John B. Goodenough (1955). "Theory of the role of covalence in the Perovskite-type Manganites [La, M(II)]MnO3". Phys. Rev. 100 (2): 564–573. .
- K. Mizushima; P.C. Jones; P.J. Wiseman; J.B. Goodenough (1980). "LixCoO2 (0<x<-1): A new cathode material for batteries of high energy density". Mater. Res. Bull. 15 (6): 783–799. S2CID 97799722.
- John B. Goodenough (1985). B. Schuman, Jr.; et al. (eds.). "Manganese Oxides as Battery Cathodes" (PDF). Proceedings Symposium on Manganese Dioxide Electrode: Theory and Practice for Electrochemical Applications. 85–4. Re Electrochem. Soc. Inc, N.J.: 77–96.
- 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 La1.2Sr1.8Mn2O7 Below TC: 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).
- A.K. Padhi; K.S. Nanjundaswamy; J.B. Goodenough (1997). "Phospho-Olivines as Positive Electrode Materials for Rechargeable Lithium Batteries" (PDF). J. Electrochem. Soc. 144 (4): 1188–1194. S2CID 97625881. Archived from the original(PDF) on July 23, 2018.
- John B. Goodenough (2004). "Electronic and ionic transport properties and other physical aspects of perovskites". Rep. Prog. Phys. 67 (11): 1915–1973. S2CID 250915186.
- 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).
- "John B. Goodenough". Faculty. The University of Texas at Austin Mechanical Engineering Department. May 3, 2005. Archived from the original on September 28, 2011. Retrieved August 23, 2011.
Selected books
- Goodenough, John B. (1963). Magnetism and the Chemical Bond. Interscience-Wiley, New York. ISBN 0-88275-384-3.
- Goodenough, John B. (1973). Les oxydes des métaux de transition. Paris: Gauthier-Villars.
- Madelung, Otfried; Goodenough, John B. (1984). Physics of non-tetrahedrally bonded binary compounds 3. Berlin: Springer. OCLC 80307018.
- Goodenough, John B., ed. (1985). Cation ordering and electron transfer. Berlin: Springer. OCLC 12656638.
- Goodenough, John B., ed. (2001). Localized to Itinerant Electronic Transition in Perovskite Oxides (Structure & Bonding, V. 98) (PDF).
- Huang, Kevin; Goodenough, John B. (2009). Solid oxide fuel cell technology : principles, performance and operations. Cambridge, UK. )
- Goodenough, John B. (2008). Witness to Grace. PublishAmerica. OCLC 1058153653.
See also
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Further reading
- John N. Lalena; David A. Cleary (2005). Principles of Inorganic Materials Design (PDF). Wiley-Interscience. pp. xi–xiv, 233–269. ISBN 0-471-43418-3.
External links
- Faculty Directory at University of Texas at Austin
- Array of Contemporary American Physicists
- History of the lithium-ion battery, Physics Today, Sept. 2016
- 1 hour interview with John Goodenough on YouTube by The Electrochemical Society, October 5, 2016
- Are Solid State Batteries about to change the world?, Joe Scott, November 2018, Goodenough and team research on more energy dense solid state Li-ion chemistry featured 3:35–12:45.
- Pr John Goodenough's interview GOODENOUGH John B., 2001–05 – Sciences : histoire orale on École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Parishistory of science website
- John B. Goodenough on Nobelprize.org including the Nobel Lecture, "Designing Lithium-ion Battery Cathodes" (December 8, 2019)