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John B. Goodenough

1922 - 2023

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John Bannister Goodenough ( GUUD-in-uf; July 25, 1922 – June 25, 2023) was an American materials scientist, a solid-state physicist, and a Nobel laureate in chemistry. From 1986 he was a professor of Materials Science, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, at the University of Texas at Austin. He is credited with identifying the Goodenough–Kanamori rules of the sign of the magnetic superexchange in materials, with developing materials for computer random-access memory and with inventing cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries. Goodenough was awarded the National Medal of Science, the Copley Medal, the Fermi Award, the Draper Prize, and the Japan Prize. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John B. Goodenough is the 337th most popular physicist (down from 327th in 2019), the 1,419th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,452nd in 2019) and the 46th most popular German Physicist. Learn more about John B. Goodenough's academic impact at Rankless.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, John B. Goodenough ranks 337 out of 851. Before him are Moshé Feldenkrais, Louis Paul Cailletet, Leopold Infeld, Giovanni Battista Amici, Carl Wieman, and Jan Ingenhousz. After him are Fritjof Capra, Robert B. Laughlin, Thomas Johann Seebeck, Bruno Pontecorvo, Stephen Hales, and Giorgio Parisi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, John B. Goodenough ranks 78. Before him are Toots Thielemans, Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Hohenberg, Enrico Berlinguer, Adolfo Celi, Michael Cacoyannis, and María Casares. After him are Olga Ladyzhenskaya, Gianna Beretta Molla, Jake LaMotta, Denholm Elliott, Richard Hamilton, and Jean-Pierre Rampal. Among people deceased in 2023, John B. Goodenough ranks 88. Before him are Maryanne Trump Barry, Leiji Matsumoto, Otar Iosseliani, Francis Lee, Ahmed Qurei, and Karel Schwarzenberg. After him are Viktor Belenko, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Françoise Gilot, Jan Jongbloed, Gianni Vattimo, and Elliott Erwitt.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, John B. Goodenough ranks 1,419 out of 7,253. Before him are Alfred Krupp (1812), Axel Honneth (1949), Anne Christine of Sulzbach, Princess of Piedmont (1704), Philipp Ludwig, Count Palatine of Neuburg (1547), Wilhelm Groener (1867), and Thea von Harbou (1888). After him are Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (1849), Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg (1797), Anna of Saxony (1544), Jens Lehmann (1969), Anne Catherine of Brandenburg (1575), and John George IV, Elector of Saxony (1668).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, John B. Goodenough ranks 46. Before him are Klaus Hasselmann (1931), Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912), Friedrich Hund (1896), Rainer Weiss (1932), Christoph Scheiner (1575), and Ludwig Prandtl (1875). After him are Walther Gerlach (1889), Pascual Jordan (1902), Franz Aepinus (1724), Heinrich Geißler (1814), Wolfgang Ketterle (1957), and Franz Ernst Neumann (1798).

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