Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of batteries …

The German John B. Goodenough, the British Stanley Whittingham and the Japanese Akira Yoshino are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019 for him development of lithium-ion batteriesannounced the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences.

"Lithium batteries have revolutionized our lives and are being used from cell phones to laptops and electric vehicles "he said when he announced his decision. The work of the three scientists "laid the foundation for a wireless society and without fossils," said the Swedish academy.

In the early 1970s, Whittingan used the huge pulse of lithium to release its outermost electron, which led to the development of the first functional lithium battery.

Goodenough's contribution was to double the potential of this lithium battery, creating the right conditions to make it much more powerful and useful.

For its part, Yoshino has managed to eliminate pure lithium from the battery by using lithium ions, which are safer than pure lithium.which allowed the battery to work in practice.

Goodenough, born in Jena (east of Germany) in 1951, teaches at the University of Austin Texas; his colleague Whittingham was born in 1941 in Nottingham, England and was a professor at the Universities of Oxford and Stanford, while Yoshino was born in 1948 in Osaka, of which he is still attached to the university.

The announcement of this Wednesday is the third edition of these prestigious awards, after announcing the Medicine and Physics awards Monday and Tuesday, and in anticipation of those of Literature, Peace and Economy, in the coming months. days.

Thursday, the literature will be announced, this year rewarded twice, for 2018 and 2019, while Friday will be announced for Peace and the following Monday will be for Economy.

All prizes include an economic endowment, which this year stands at 9 million Swedish kronor (831,000 euros, 912,000 dollars). The prizes are awarded on December 10, the anniversary day of the death of its founder, Alfred Nobel, at a double ceremony at the Konserthus in Stockholm and at Oslo City Hall, for peace .