John Bannister Goodenough ( ; born July 25, 1922) is an American materials scientist, a
solid-state physicist
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, and a
Nobel laureate in chemistry. He is a professor of Mechanical, Materials Science, and Electrical Engineering at the
University of Texas at Austin
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. He is widely credited with the identification and development of the
lithium-ion battery
A lithium-ion or Li-ion battery is a type of rechargeable battery which uses the reversible reduction of lithium ions to store energy. It is the predominant battery type used in portable consumer electronics and electric vehicles. It also s ...
, 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
Random-access memory (RAM; ) is a form of computer memory that can be read and changed in any order, typically used to store working data and machine code. A random-access memory device allows data items to be read or written in almost the ...
.
Goodenough was born in
Jena
Jena () is a German city and the second largest city in Thuringia. Together with the nearby cities of Erfurt and Weimar, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia with approximately 500,000 inhabitants, while the city itself has a po ...
, Germany, to American parents. During and after graduating from
Yale University
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, Goodenough served as a U.S. military
meteorologist
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in World War II. He went on to obtain his Ph.D. in physics at the
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...
, became a researcher at
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
The MIT Lincoln Laboratory, located in Lexington, Massachusetts, is a United States Department of Defense federally funded research and development center chartered to apply advanced technology to problems of national security. Research and dev ...
, and later the head of the
Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory
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at the
University of Oxford
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. Since 1986, he has been a professor in the school of engineering at UT Austin.
Goodenough has been awarded the
National Medal of Science
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, the
Copley Medal
The Copley Medal is an award given by the Royal Society, for "outstanding achievements in research in any branch of science". It alternates between the physical sciences or mathematics and the biological sciences. Given every year, the medal is t ...
, the
Fermi Award, the
Draper Prize, and the
Japan Prize
is awarded to people from all parts of the world whose "original and outstanding achievements in science and technology are recognized as having advanced the frontiers of knowledge and served the cause of peace and prosperity for mankind." The P ...
. The
John B Goodenough Award
The John B. Goodenough Award is run biennially by the Royal Society of Chemistry and awards contributions to the field of materials chemistry. The prize winner, chosen by the Materials Chemistry Division Awards Committee, receives a monetary rewa ...
in materials science is named for him. In 2019, he was awarded the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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alongside
M. Stanley Whittingham
Michael Stanley Whittingham (born 22 December 1941) is a British- American chemist. He is currently a professor of chemistry and director of both the Institute for Materials Research and the Materials Science and Engineering program at Binghamto ...
and
Akira Yoshino, and, at 97 years old, became the oldest Nobel laureate in history.
He became the oldest living Nobel Prize laureate on August 27, 2021, upon the death of
Edmond H. Fischer.
Early life and education
John Goodenough was born in Jena, Germany, to American parents,
Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough (1893–1965) and Helen Miriam (Lewis) Goodenough. His father was working on his Ph.D. at the
Harvard Divinity School
Harvard Divinity School (HDS) is one of the constituent schools of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The school's mission is to educate its students either in the academic study of religion or for leadership roles in religion, gov ...
at the time of John's birth and later became a professor in the history of religion at
Yale University
Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the w ...
. John's brother, the late
Ward Goodenough
Ward Hunt Goodenough II (May 30, 1919 – June 9, 2013) was an American anthropologist, who has made contributions to kinship studies, linguistic anthropology, cross-cultural studies, and cognitive anthropology.
Biography and major works
G ...
, was a
University of Pennsylvania
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anthropologist. The brothers attended boarding school at
Groton in
Massachusetts
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. He also has a half-sister from his father's second marriage,
Ursula Goodenough
Ursula W. Goodenough (born March 16, 1943) is a Professor of Biology Emerita at Washington University in St. Louis were she engaged in research on eukaryotic algae. She authored the textbook ''Genetics'' and the best-selling boo''The Sacred Dept ...
, who is an emeritus professor of
biology
Biology is the scientific study of life. It is a natural science with a broad scope but has several unifying themes that tie it together as a single, coherent field. For instance, all organisms are made up of cells that process hereditary ...
at
Washington University in St. Louis. In 1944, John Goodenough received a BS in Mathematics,
summa cum laude
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from
Yale University
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, where he was a member of
Skull and Bones
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.
After serving in the
US Army
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as a meteorologist in
World War II
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, Goodenough went to the
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...
to complete a masters and was awarded a Ph.D. in
physics
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in 1952.
His doctoral supervisor was
Clarence Zener, a theorist in
electrical breakdown, and he worked and studied with physicists, including
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi (; 29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954) was an Italian (later naturalized American) physicist and the creator of the world's first nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1. He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" an ...
and
John A. Simpson
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. While at Chicago, he met and married history graduate student Irene Wiseman.
Career and research
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
After his studies, Goodenough was a research scientist and team leader at
MIT's Lincoln Laboratory
The MIT Lincoln Laboratory, located in Lexington, Massachusetts, is a United States Department of Defense federally funded research and development center chartered to apply advanced technology to problems of national security. Research and d ...
for 24 years. 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 (with
Junjiro Kanamori).
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Tenure at the University of Oxford
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, he continued his career as head of the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory
The Department of Chemistry is the chemistry department of the University of Oxford, England, which is part of the university's Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division
Overview
The department has several laboratories in the Science ...
at University of Oxford
, mottoeng = The Lord is my light
, established =
, endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019)
, budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20)
, chancellor ...
. Among his work at Oxford, Goodenough has been credited with significant research essential to the development of commercial lithium-ion rechargeable batteries.[ Goodenough was able to expand upon previous work from ]M. Stanley Whittingham
Michael Stanley Whittingham (born 22 December 1941) is a British- American chemist. He is currently a professor of chemistry and director of both the Institute for Materials Research and the Materials Science and Engineering program at Binghamto ...
on battery materials, and found in 1980 that by using LixCoO2 as a lightweight, high energy density cathode
A cathode is the electrode from which a conventional current leaves a polarized electrical device. This definition can be recalled by using the mnemonic ''CCD'' for ''Cathode Current Departs''. A conventional current describes the direction in whi ...
material, he could double the capacity of lithium-ion batteries. Goodenough's work was commercialized through Sony
, commonly stylized as SONY, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. As a major technology company, it operates as one of the world's largest manufacturers of consumer and professional ...
by Akira Yoshino, who had contributed additional improvements to the battery construction. Goodenough received the Japan Prize
is awarded to people from all parts of the world whose "original and outstanding achievements in science and technology are recognized as having advanced the frontiers of knowledge and served the cause of peace and prosperity for mankind." The P ...
in 2001 for his discoveries of the materials critical to the development of lightweight high energy density rechargeable lithium batteries, and he, Whittingham, and Yoshino shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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for their research in lithium-ion batteries.
Professor at University of Texas
Since 1986, Goodenough has been a professor at The University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...
in the Cockrell School of Engineering
The Cockrell School of Engineering is one of the eighteen colleges within the University of Texas at Austin. It has more than 8,000 students enrolled in eleven undergraduate and thirteen graduate programs. The college is ranked 10th in the world ...
departments of Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering
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. During his tenure there, he has continued his research on ionic conducting solids and electrochemical devices; he stated that he continued to study improved materials for batteries to help promote the development of electric vehicles
An electric vehicle (EV) is a vehicle that uses one or more electric motors for propulsion. It can be powered by a collector system, with electricity from extravehicular sources, or it can be powered autonomously by a battery (sometimes ch ...
and help reduce the dependency on fossil fuels. Arumugam Manthiram and Goodenough discovered the polyanion class of cathodes. They showed that positive electrodes containing polyanion
Polyelectrolytes are polymers whose repeating units bear an electrolyte group. Polycations and polyanions are polyelectrolytes. These groups dissociate in aqueous solutions (water), making the polymers charged. Polyelectrolyte properties are th ...
s, e.g., sulfate
The sulfate or sulphate ion is a polyatomic anion with the empirical formula . Salts, acid derivatives, and peroxides of sulfate are widely used in industry. Sulfates occur widely in everyday life. Sulfates are salts of sulfuric acid and many ...
s, produce higher voltages than oxides due to the inductive effect
In chemistry, the inductive effect in a molecule is a local change in the electron density due to electron-withdrawing or electron-donating groups elsewhere in the molecule, resulting in a permanent dipole in a bond.
It is present in a σ (sigma ...
of the polyanion. The polyanion class includes materials such as lithium-iron phosphates that are used for smaller devices like power tools. His group has also identified various promising electrode and electrolyte materials for solid oxide fuel cells. He currently holds the Virginia H. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering.
Goodenough still works at the university at age 98 as of 2021, hoping to find another breakthrough in battery technology.[
On February 28, 2017 Goodenough and his team at the University of Texas published a paper in the journal '']Energy and Environmental Science
''Energy & Environmental Science'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing original (primary) research and review articles. The journal covers work of an interdisciplinary nature in the biochemical and biophysical sciences and ch ...
'' on their demonstration of a glass battery
The glass battery is a type of solid-state battery. It uses a glass electrolyte and lithium or sodium metal electrodes. The battery was invented by John B. Goodenough, inventor of the lithium cobalt oxide and lithium iron phosphate electrode mat ...
, a low-cost all-solid-state battery that is noncombustible and has a long cycle life A charge cycle is the process of charging a rechargeable battery and discharging it as required into a load. The term is typically used to specify a battery's expected life, as the number of charge cycles affects life more than the mere passage of t ...
with a high volumetric energy density
In physics, energy density is the amount of energy stored in a given system or region of space per unit volume. It is sometimes confused with energy per unit mass which is properly called specific energy or .
Often only the ''useful'' or extrac ...
, and fast rates of charge and discharge. Instead of liquid electrolytes, the battery uses glass electrolytes that enable the use of an alkali-metal anode without the formation of dendrites. However, this paper was met with widespread skepticism by the battery research community and remains controversial after several follow-up works. The work was criticized for a lack of comprehensive data, spurious interpretations of the data obtained, and that the proposed mechanism of battery operation would violate the first law of thermodynamics
The first law of thermodynamics is a formulation of the law of conservation of energy, adapted for thermodynamic processes. It distinguishes in principle two forms of energy transfer, heat and thermodynamic work for a system of a constant am ...
.
In April 2020, a patent was filed for the glass battery on behalf of the LNEG (National Laboratory of Energy and Geology) in Portugal, the University of Porto, Portugal and the University of Texas.
Advisory work
In 2010, Goodenough joined the technical advisory board of Irvine, California
Irvine () is a master-planned city in South Orange County, California, United States, in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The Irvine Company started developing the area in the 1960s and the city was formally incorporated on December 28, 197 ...
-based Enevate, a silicon-dominant Li-ion battery technology startup. Goodenough also currently serves as an adviser to the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), a collaboration led by Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne National Laboratory is a science and engineering research national laboratory operated by UChicago Argonne LLC for the United States Department of Energy. The facility is located in Lemont, Illinois, outside of Chicago, and is the l ...
and funded by the Department of Energy. Since 2016 Goodenough has also worked as an adviser for Battery500, a national consortium led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and partially funded by the Department of Energy.
Fundamental investigations
On the fundamental side, his research has focused on magnetism
Magnetism is the class of physical attributes that are mediated by a magnetic field, which refers to the capacity to induce attractive and repulsive phenomena in other entities. Electric currents and the magnetic moments of elementary particles ...
and on the Metal–insulator transition
Metal–insulator transitions are transitions of a material from a metal (material with good electrical conductivity of electric charges) to an insulator (material where conductivity of charges is quickly suppressed). These transitions can be ach ...
behavior in transition-metal oxides. Along with Junjiro Kanamori, Goodenough developed a set of semi-empirical rules to predict magnetism in these materials in the 1950s and 1960s, now called the Goodenough–Kanamori rules, forming the basis of superexchange, which is a core property for high-temperature superconductivity
High-temperature superconductors (abbreviated high-c or HTS) are defined as materials that behave as superconductors at temperatures above , the boiling point of liquid nitrogen. The adjective "high temperature" is only in respect to previou ...
.
Distinctions
Professor Goodenough was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering
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in 1976 for his work designing materials for electronic components and clarifying the relationships between the properties, structures, and chemistry of substances. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences
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, French Academy of Sciences
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, the Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales
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of Spain, and the National Academy of Sciences, India. He has authored more than 550 articles, 85 book chapters and reviews, and five books, including two seminal works, ''Magnetism and the Chemical Bond'' (1963) and ''Les oxydes des metaux de transition'' (1973). Goodenough was a co-recipient of the 2009 Enrico Fermi Award for his work in lithium-ion batteries, alongside Siegfried S. Hecker of Stanford University who had received the award for his work in plutonium metallurgy.
In 2010 he was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society
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. On February 1, 2013, Goodenough was presented with the National Medal of Science by President Barack Obama
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of the United States. He was awarded the Draper Prize in engineering. In 2015 he was listed along with M Stanley Whittingham
Michael Stanley Whittingham (born 22 December 1941) is a British-American chemist. He is currently a professor of chemistry and director of both the Institute for Materials Research and the Materials Science and Engineering program at Binghamton ...
, for pioneering research leading to the development of the lithium-ion battery on a list of Clarivate Citation Laureates for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry by Thomson Reuters. In 2017 he received the Welch Award in Chemistry
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and in 2019 he was awarded the Copley Medal
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of the Royal Society.
The Royal Society of Chemistry
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granted a John B Goodenough Award
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in his honor.
Goodenough received an honorary C.K. Prahalad award from Corporate EcoForum (CEF) in 2017. CEF's founder Rangaswami commented, "John Goodenough is evidence of imagination being put to work for the greater good. We're thrilled to recognize his lifetime of achievements and are hopeful that his latest discovery will have major implications for the future of sustainable battery storage."
Goodenough was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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on October 9, 2019, for his work on lithium-ion batteries, along with M. Stanley Whittingham
Michael Stanley Whittingham (born 22 December 1941) is a British- American chemist. He is currently a professor of chemistry and director of both the Institute for Materials Research and the Materials Science and Engineering program at Binghamto ...
and Akira Yoshino. He is the oldest person to be awarded the Nobel Prize.
Personal life
Goodenough turned 100 on July 25, 2022.
Works
Articles
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*Lightfoot, P.; Pei, S. Y.; Jorgensen, J. D.; Manthiram, A.; Tang, X. X. & J. B. Goodenough
"Excess Oxygen Defects in Layered Cuprates"
Argonne National Laboratory
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, The University of Texas-Austin, Materials Science Laboratory United States Department of Energy
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, National Science Foundation
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, (September 1990).
*Argyriou, D. N.; Mitchell, J. F.; Chmaissem, O.; Short, S.; Jorgensen, J. D. & J. B. Goodenough
1.2Sr1.8Mn2O7 Below TC: Exchange Striction in the Ferromagnetic State""> "Sign Reversal of the Mn-O Bond Compressibility in La1.2Sr1.8Mn2O7 Below TC: Exchange Striction in the Ferromagnetic State"
Argonne National Laboratory
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, The University of Texas-Austin, Center for Material Science and Engineering United States Department of Energy
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, National Science Foundation
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, Welch Foundation, (March 1997).
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*Goodenough, J. B.; Abruna, H. D. & M. V. Buchanan
"Basic Research Needs for Electrical Energy Storage. Report of the Basic Energy Sciences Workshop on Electrical Energy Storage, April 2-4, 2007"
United States Department of Energy
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, (April 4, 2007).
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See also
* Junjiro Kanamori
*Koichi Mizushima (scientist)
is a Japanese researcher known for discovering lithium cobalt oxide (LiCoO) and related materials for the lithium-ion battery (Li-ion battery). He was affiliated with the University of Tokyo, before he went on to work for Toshiba.
Early career
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* Rachid Yazami
References
Further reading
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External links
Faculty Directory at University of Texas at Austin
Array of Contemporary American Physicists
History of the lithium-ion battery, Physics Today, Sept. 2016
* by The Electrochemical Society
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, October 5, 2016
Are Solid State Batteries about to change the world?
Joe Scott, November 2018, Goodenough and team research on more energy dense solid state Li-ion chemistry featured 3:35–12:45.
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* including the Nobel Lecture 8 December 2019 ''Designing Lithium-ion Battery Cathodes''
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