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FILE - In this Friday, June 21, 2013 file photo Japanese chemist Akira Yoshino speaks during Global Energy Prize award ceremony in St. Petersburg, Russia. The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino âÄœfor the development of lithium-ion batteries.âĝ (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky, File)