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The oldest person to ever receive a Nobel Prize, John B. Goodenough, said Wednesday he's not going into retirement and still has work to do.
The 97-year-old was one of three scientists who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work developing lithium-ion batteries, which have reshaped energy storage and transformed cars, mobile phones and many other devices - and reduced the world's reliance on fossil fuels that contribute to global warming.
The prize went to Goodenough, a German-born engineering professor at the University of Texas; M. Stanley Whittingham, 77, a British-American chemistry professor at the State University of New York at Binghamton; and Japan's Akira Yoshino, 71, of Asahi Kasei Corporation and Meijo University.
The three each had a set of unique breakthroughs that cumulatively laid the foundation for the development of a commercial rechargeable battery.
Lithium-ion batteries - the first truly portable and rechargeable batteries - took more than a decade to develop, and drew upon the work of multiple scientists in the US, Japan and around the world.
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