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In this 2015 photo provided by The University of Texas at Austin, Professor John B. Goodenough poses in his lab at the university in Austin, Texas. Goodenough is among three scientists who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019, for their work leading to the development of lithium-ion batteries. He shares the prize with M. Stanley Whittingham, a British-American chemistry professor at the State University of New York at Binghamton and Japan's Akira Yoshino, of Asahi Kasei Corporation and Meijo University. (Marsha Miller/The University of Texas at Austin)