We go through life without duly thanking the thousands of people that made it easier and more comfortable. Just think about electric lamps and the teleph.
John B Goodenough, professor at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) who is known around the world for the development of the lithium-ion battery, died on Sunday at an assisted living facility in Austin, Texas, at the age of 100.
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2013 was awarded jointly to Eugene F. Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert J. Shiller "for their empirical analysis of asset prices"
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008 was awarded jointly to Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien "for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP"