Nobel laureate Yoshino craves more research discoveries english.kyodonews.net

Credited with the creation of commercially viable lithium-ion batteries, Yoshino said in an interview with the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences that his "curiosity" has been the main motivation for his research.
It's very exciting," Yoshino said later in a conference room at Asahi Kasei's Tokyo headquarters that was packed with reporters and company employees.
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A native of Osaka Prefecture, Yoshino has won a number of international awards including the European Patent Office's European Inventor Award.
Yoshino is Japan's 27th Nobel laureate and the first Japanese to win the chemistry prize since Eiichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki jointly won it with American chemist Richard Heck in 2010.