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(Inside Science) — The 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to three scientists “for the development of lithium-ion batteries.”

The prize goes jointly to John B. Goodenough of the University of Texas at Austin, M. Stanley Whittingham of Binghamton University in New York, and Akira Yoshino, of Meijo University in Nagoya, Japan.

At 97, Goodenough will be the oldest Nobel laureate ever awar