John B. Goodenough
| John Goodenough | |
|---|---|
| Born | John Bannister Goodenough July 25, 1922 Jena, Germany |
| Residence | Texas, US |
| Nationality | US |
| Fields | Physics |
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| Alma mater | |
| Doctoral advisor | Clarence Zener |
| Notable students | Bill David (postdoc) |
| Known for | Li-ion rechargeable battery, Goodenough–Kanamori rules |
| Notable awards |
Japan Prize (2001) Enrico Fermi Award (2009) National Medal of Science (2011) Charles Stark Draper Prize (2014) |
John Bannister Goodenough (born 25 July 1922 in Jena, Germany) is an American professor and solid-state physicist. He is currently a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at The University of Texas at Austin. He is widely credited for the identification and development of the Li-ion rechargeable battery as well as for developing the Goodenough–Kanamori rules for determining the sign of the magnetic superexchange in materials. In 2014, he received the Charles Stark Draper Prize for his contributions to the lithium-ion battery.
Goodenough attended boarding school at Groton School before receiving a B.S. in Mathematics, summa cum laude, from Yale University in 1944, where he was a member of Skull and Bones. After serving overseas in World War II, he returned to complete a Ph.D. in Physics under the supervision of Clarence Zener at the University of Chicago in 1952.
During his early career, he was a research scientist at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory. During this time he was part of an interdisciplinary team responsible for developing random access magnetic memory. His research efforts on RAM led him to develop the concepts of cooperative orbital ordering, also known as a cooperative Jahn–Teller distortion, in oxide materials, and subsequently led to his developing the rules for the sign of the magnetic superexchange in materials, now known as the Goodenough–Kanamori rules.
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