Battery Pioneers Who Made Mobile Revolution Possible Win Nobel Chemistry Prize

Battery Pioneers Who Made Mobile Revolution Possible Win Nobel Chemistry Prize

A screen displays the portraits of the laureates of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (L-R) John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino "for the development of lithium-ion batteries" during a news conference at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden on Oct. 9, 2019. Naina Helen Jama/TT News Agency/via Reuters

Three scientists have won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for putting power in peoples pockets by developing rechargeable lithium-ion batteries which made the global information technology, mobile and fossil-fuel-free revolutions possible.

American John Goodenough, at 97, became the oldest winner of a Nobel prize and shares the 9 million Swedish crown ($906,000 award equally with Stanley Whittingham from Britain and Akira Yoshino of Japan, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Nobel Committee said on Oct. 9.