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In this Sept. 28, 2017, photo, Akira Yoshino poses with lithium batteries in Nagoya, central Japan. The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday Oct. 9, 2019, has been awarded to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino âÄœfor the development of lithium-ion batteries.âĝ (Yoshiaki Sakamoto/Kyodo News via AP)