Published 16:51 IST, October 9th 2019

Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to John B, M Stanley, Akira Yoshino

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was jointly awarded to John B Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino “for the development of lithium-ion batteries".

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bel Prize in Chemistry 2019 was jointly awarded to John B Goodeugh, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshi “for development of lithium-ion batteries” on October 9. This was anunced two days after bel Prize in Physics was anunced for a Canian-American cosmologist along with two Swiss scientists. awards were presented by Göran K Hansson, Secretary-General of Royal Swedish Acemy of Sciences. 

What are Lithium-ion batteries?

Lithium-ion batteries are presently most portable form for consumer electronics. y are used in mobile phones as well as laptops because of high energy per unit of mass. se batteries even have greater power to weight ratio along with high energy and ir performance remains unaffected with high temperature. Because of ir low self-discharge, a number of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles also use lithium-ion batteries. bel Prize is awarded to scientists who developed se batteries as according to organization, y have “revolutionized our lives”. 

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bel Prizes 2019

Unlike previous year, this year bel Prize is being anunced from October 7 to October 14  in following order: October 7 (Medicine), October 8 (Physics), October 9 (Chemistry), October 10 (Literature), October 11 (Peace), October 14 (Ecomics). award is in name of Alfred bel, Swedish chemist, engineer, and also an industrialist established prizes in science. first bel Prizes were anunced in 1901. According to organization, Chemistry “was most important science for Alfred bel's own work”. Furrmore, Chemistry was also second prize area that bel h mentioned in his will. 

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15:43 IST, October 9th 2019