Original title: 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry announced 97 year old scientist sets the longest record
Overseas network, October 9 (Xinhua) on October 9 local time, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that it would award the 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry to John & middot; B· John B. goodenough, M & middot; Stanley & middot; M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino in recognition of their contributions to the development of lithium ion batteries.
97 year old John & middot; B· Goodinaf is a professor in the Department of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin and a famous solid-state physicist. He is the inventor of lithium cobalt oxide, lithium manganate and lithium iron phosphate cathode materials and one of the founders of lithium-ion batteries. He designs new materials to solve material science problems by studying the relationship between chemistry, structure and solid electronic / ionic properties. It is called the 'father of lithium battery' in the industry.
According to the guardian, gudinaf is the oldest Nobel laureate so far.
M· Stanley & middot; Wittingham is a professor of chemistry and director of the materials Institute and materials science and engineering at Binghamton University, State University of New York.
Akira Yoshino is a Japanese chemist. He is now a researcher at Asahi Kasei and a professor at Mingcheng University. Yoshino is the inventor of modern lithium-ion battery. He has won the highest honor in engineering, the global energy award and Charles & middot; Stark & middot; Draper award.
According to the official website of the Nobel Prize, the Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1901 in recognition of 'the people who made the most important discoveries or inventions in the field of chemistry'. In the year when no major achievements in chemistry were evaluated, there were no awards. So far, 111 awards have been awarded, including Frederick & middot, a British scientist; Sanger won this honor twice with gene sequencing technology.
The founder of the Nobel Prize -- Alfred middot of Sweden; Nobel himself is a chemist who invented nitroglycerin explosive. In his will to establish the award, he put the Chemistry Award in second place, second only to the physics award.
By 2018, the oldest winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry was 85 year old American scientist John & middot; Finn, the youngest is the Curie couple's son-in-law - French scientist Frederico & middot; Jorio, who won the prize with his wife, was 35 years old. At present, only five women have won this award.
The following is the list of winners of the Nobel Prize in chemistry in recent five years and their main achievements:
In 2014, it was awarded to American scientist Eric & bull; Bezig, William & bull; Mona, and German scientist Stefan & bull; Hale, for their contribution to the development of super-resolution fluorescence microscopy.
In 2015, it was awarded to Thomas & middot, a Swedish scientist; Linddahl, American scientist Paul & middot; Modric and Aziz, a scientist with American and Turkish nationality; Sanjar, in recognition of their contribution to the study of gene repair mechanism.
In 2016, it was awarded to Jean Pierre & middot; Sauvage, Fraser & middot; Stoddart, Bernard & middot; Felinga the three scientists in recognition of their contributions in the field of molecular machine design and synthesis.
In 2017, it was awarded to Jacques & middot, a Swiss scientist; Dubochet, American scientist Joachim & middot; Frank and British scientist Richard & middot; Henderson, in recognition of their contribution in the field of cryomicroscopy.
In 2018, it was awarded to Francis & middot, an American scientist; Arnold and George & middot; Smith and British scientist Gregory & middot; Winter, in recognition of their achievements in the directed evolution of enzymes and phage display technology for peptides and antibodies.
The 2019 Nobel Prize will be announced one after another from October 7, among which the winner of the prize in physiology or Medicine - American medical scientist William & middot; Kailin, Greg & middot; Simenza and the British medical scientist Peter middot; Ratcliffe, who won the prize for their revolutionary discovery that allowed people to understand the basic principle of cells sensing oxygen at the molecular level.
On August 8, the 2019 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to American scientist James middot; Pibles, and two Swiss scientists Michel & middot; Mayor and Didier & middot; Queiroz, in recognition of their outstanding contributions in the field of astrophysics.
According to the official website of the Nobel Prize, the announcement time of other awards is expected to be: the winners of the literature prize will be announced on the 10th, the winners of the peace prize will be announced on the 11th, and the winners of the economics prize will be announced on the 14th.