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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 Mechanical, Materials Science, and Electrical 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 1,452,826 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). John B. Goodenough is the 248th most popular physicist (up from 361st in 2019), the 978th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,917th in 2019) and the 36th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, John B. Goodenough ranks 248 out of 717. Before him are David Bohm, Klaus Hasselmann, Julian Schwinger, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Gustaf Dalén, and Georg Bednorz. After him are David J. Wineland, Theodor W. Hänsch, Yoichiro Nambu, Serge Haroche, Joseph Plateau, and Gérard Mourou.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, John B. Goodenough ranks 55. Before him are Robert W. Holley, Ademir de Menezes, Juan Antonio Villacañas, Cornelius Castoriadis, Alberto Granado, and Francesco Rosi. After him are Michael Cacoyannis, Har Gobind Khorana, Richard Hamilton, Lucian Freud, Toots Thielemans, and Oskar Werner. Among people deceased in 2023, John B. Goodenough ranks 48. Before him are Burt Young, Alain Touraine, Lucile Randon, William Friedkin, Pervez Musharraf, and Ryuichi Sakamoto. After him are Antonio Negri, David McCallum, Ivan Silayev, Astrud Gilberto, Cormac McCarthy, and Gordon Moore.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, John B. Goodenough ranks 978 out of 6,142. Before him are Hans Oster (1887), John, Elector of Saxony (1468), Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (1719), Georg Bednorz (1950), Heinrich von Vietinghoff (1887), and Günther Lütjens (1889). After him are Felix Magath (1953), Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp (1636), Godigisel (359), Alfred von Waldersee (1832), Christian Thomasius (1655), and Berti Vogts (1946).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, John B. Goodenough ranks 36. Before him are Wolfgang Paul (1913), Herbert Kroemer (1928), Max Delbrück (1906), Carl von Linde (1842), Klaus Hasselmann (1931), and Georg Bednorz (1950). After him are Theodor W. Hänsch (1941), Klaus Fuchs (1911), Rainer Weiss (1932), Jack Steinberger (1921), Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912), and Ludwig Prandtl (1875).

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