Japan’s Yoshino, 2 others win 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry

October 9, 2019

Tokyo--The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Wednesday it will award the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Akira Yoshino, honorary fellow of Japanese chemical maker Asahi Kasei Corp. and two other researchers "for the development of lithium-ion batteries."


The other two laureates are John B. Goodenough of University of Texas and M. Stanley Whittingham of State University of New York. Jiji Press