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John Bannister Goodenough, the American co-inventor of Lithium-ion batteries and a co-winner of 2019 Nobel prize for Chemistry, has passed away. He was just a month short of turning 101. Goodenough also played a significant role in the development of Random Access Memory (RAM) for computers.

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[-] hardypart@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Condolences from his older brother, Johnny B. Goode

I'll show myself out

[-] riktor@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

John was more than good enough

[-] binaryphile@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

John What-have-you-done-any-better is hard to fit on a business card.

[-] onepinksheep@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

Considering how surnames originate, that would be interesting finding out just what the ancestor who first used that name did in order to be known by it.

"You're looking for Jack? There's Jack the baker, Jack the tailor, and there's Jack from down the street. He doesn't really do anything, but he's good enough."

[-] scrchngwsl@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

Possibly a product of immigration. I know a guy from the US whose surname is "Supernaw". He told me that the original surname might have been a French one, something like "Surprenant", which the English-speaking immigration officials wrote down as "Supernaw". You can imagine how the conversation went right?

Something similar might have happened here, maybe an Eastern European surname like (completely made up example) "Godenov" got written down by English officials as "Goodenough".

[-] ShaunaTheDead@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

What a champ! This guy not only brought lithium ion battery technology to the world, but he was also instrumental in research into solid state batteries which are just hitting the market now and will be as much of a game change as lithium ion batteries were. He wasn't just Goodenough, he was the absolute BEST! This man changed the entire world for the better TWICE!

[-] Peruvian_Skies@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

His name is actually Goodenough? Well, Li-ion batteries were a lot more than good enough. Thank you, sir, for your contribution.

[-] citrixworkkbin@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

When you're just toying around with an idea at character creation that you think will be a passing lark, but then it clicks and you stick with it

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