Remembering Them Forever (RTF)!
Goodenough, John Bannister
- Jena, Germany
Military Information:
- US Army
- Deceased
- WWII Veteran
- QR Code
- WWII Victory Medal
- 1-Alpha List
- Celebrity: Nobel Laureate
- Lone Star Merit Award (TVHOF Class of 2022)
Bio:
American materials scientist, a solid-state physicist, and a Nobel laureate in chemistry. He is a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at the University of Texas at Austin. He is widely credited with the identification and development of the lithium-ion battery, for developing the Goodenough–Kanamori rules in determining the sign of the magnetic superexchange in materials, and for seminal developments in computer random-access memory.
Goodenough served as a U.S. military meteorologist in World War II. He went on to obtain his Ph.D. in physics at the University of Chicago, became a researcher at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and later the head of the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory at the University of Oxford. Since 1986, he has been a professor in the school of engineering at UT Austin. Goodenough still works at the university at age 98 as of 2021, hoping to find another breakthrough in battery technology.
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