John B. Goodenough
American materials scientist
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| June 25 2023 | Passed away at an assisted living facility in Austin, Texas, one month before his 101st birthday. |
| June 25 2023 | Passed away at the age of 100, concluding a remarkable scientific career. |
| July 25 2022 | Celebrated his 100th birthday. |
| August 27 2021 | Became the oldest living Nobel Prize laureate, a status he maintained until his death. |
| 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, and the University of Texas. |
| 2019 | Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino, making history as the oldest Nobel laureate at 97 years old. |
| 2017 | Awarded the Welch Award in Chemistry and the C.K. Prahalad Award. |
| February 28 2017 | Goodenough and his University of Texas team published a groundbreaking paper in Energy and Environmental Science about a glass battery with a low-cost, all-solid-state design that is noncombustible and has high energy density, though the research was met with significant scientific skepticism. |
| 2014 | Received the Draper Prize in engineering. |
| 2013 | Awarded the National Medal of Science, presented by U.S. President Barack Obama. |
| 2010 | Elected as a Foreign Member of the Royal Society. |
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