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John B. Goodenough

1922 - 2023

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John Bannister Goodenough ( GUUD-in-uf; July 25, 1922 – June 25, 2023) was an American materials scientist, a solid-state physicist, and a Nobel laureate in chemistry. From 1986 he was a professor of Materials Science, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, at the University of Texas at Austin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John B. Goodenough has received more than 1,523,824 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). John B. Goodenough is the 326th most popular physicist (down from 248th in 2019), the 1,452nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 978th in 2019) and the 49th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, John B. Goodenough ranks 326 out of 851. Before him are John C. Mather, Kenneth G. Wilson, Henri Pitot, Samuel C. C. Ting, Thomas Johann Seebeck, and Bruno Pontecorvo. After him are Luis Walter Alvarez, Daniel C. Tsui, Félix Savart, Joseph Swan, Pierre Louis Dulong, and Ami Argand.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, John B. Goodenough ranks 82. Before him are Yuri Lotman, María Casares, Micheline Presle, Annemarie Schimmel, Luis Echeverría, and Elmer Bernstein. After him are Damiano Damiani, Barbara Bel Geddes, Roger Etchegaray, Árpád Göncz, Patrick Macnee, and Carlos Andrés Pérez. Among people deceased in 2023, John B. Goodenough ranks 108. Before him are Burt Bacharach, Marouf al-Bakhit, Sixto Rodriguez, Josephine Chaplin, Sinéad O'Connor, and Antonio Carbajal. After him are Oleg Protopopov, Ian Wilmut, Lee Sun-kyun, Torben Ulrich, Jean-Pierre Jabouille, and Ruth Fuchs.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, John B. Goodenough ranks 1,452 out of 7,253. Before him are Saint Afra (300), Natalia Alexeievna (1755), Franz Walter Stahlecker (1900), Marie of Hesse-Kassel (1767), Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1654), and Hans Blumenberg (1920). After him are Robert Prosinečki (1969), John Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (1575), Hans Scharoun (1893), Prince Charles of Prussia (1801), Arnold Gehlen (1904), and Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1676).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, John B. Goodenough ranks 49. Before him are Christoph Scheiner (1575), Friedrich Hund (1896), Pascual Jordan (1902), Jack Steinberger (1921), Ludwig Prandtl (1875), and Ernst Chladni (1756). After him are Franz Ernst Neumann (1798), Moritz von Jacobi (1801), Heinrich Geißler (1814), Manfred von Ardenne (1907), Johann Wilhelm Hittorf (1824), and Paul Drude (1863).

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