The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded Oct. 9 to M. Stanley Whittingham, a distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science at the State University of New York’s Binghamton University.
Mr. Whittingham, who has worked at Binghamton since 1988, was selected by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for his work during the 1970s creating the first functional lithium-ion batteries, which are used in cell phones and laptops and have also enabled the development of electric cars. The battery was too explosive to be viable.
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