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- Birth nameJohn Bannister Goodenough
- John Goodenough was born on July 25, 1922 in Jena, Germany. He was married to Irene Wiseman. He died on June 25, 2023 in Austin, Texas, USA.
- SpouseIrene Wiseman(1951 - January 25, 2016) (her death)
- He was a faculty member at the University of Texas - Austin for 37 years.
- He earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Yale University and a PhD in physics from the University of Chicago, where he studied under Nobel laureate Enrico Fermi and John A. Simpson.
- He served in the US army as a meteorologist during WWII.
- He worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for 24 years, where he helped develop random-access memory (RAM) for computers.
- He received the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2019 for his work on batteries, including the development of the lithium-ion battery. His co-laureates were Stanley Whittingham of the State University of New York at Binghamton and Akira Yoshino of Meijo University.
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