SCIENTIA SUPREMA - Nobel Prize in Chemistry - M. Stanley Whittingham, 21.11.2022

Professor M. Stanley Whittingham is a British chemist. In 2019, along with John B. Goodenough and Akira Yoshino, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on lithium-ion batteries.

The Nobel laureate was born near Nottingham on December 22, 1941. He became interested in natural sciences through his father, who was an engineer, and through his chemistry teacher. He attended Stamford School in Lincolnshire. He studied inorganic chemistry at Oxford University's New College and received his bachelor's degree in 1964 and his master's degree three years later. He received his doctorate from the same university in 1968.

In 1972, Whittingham developed the first rechargeable lithium batteries. Five years later, together with John B. Goodenough, he wrote a book on energy storage in terms of solid-state chemistry, and in 1981 founded the new journal Solid State Ionics, which he edited for the next 20 years. In 1984, he moved to Schlumberger-Doll's laboratory and led his own research team there for four years. In the late 1980s, he returned to academia and took a job at the State University of New York at Binghamton (1988). He was vice chancellor for science for five years and vice chairman of the university's research foundation for six.

The meeting will be held on Monday, November 21, 2022 at 6:00 pm in the Senate Room of the WUT Main Building.