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John Goodenough, a professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, was among three Nobel winners in chemistry.
Illustration by Niklas Elmehed/Nobel MediaOct. 9 (UPI) -- A trio of American and Japanese scientists won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry Wednesday for their work in developing lithium-ion batteries.
By the 1980s, Goodenough had developed lithium-ion batteries with capacity for far greater power.
The shift to lithium-ion batteries can help reduce climate change by shifting the point of pollution from the tailpipe on a traditional gasoline-powered vehicle to a power plant that provides the electricity to charge the batteries on electric cars.
The Nobel Prize for Literature will be awarded Thursday, the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday and the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences on Monday.