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    Akira Yoshino (吉野 彰, Yoshino Akira, born 30 January 1948) is a Japanese chemist. He is a fellow of Asahi Kasei Corporation and a professor at Meijo University...
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    awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino; at 97 years old, he became the oldest Nobel laureate in history. From...
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    uses a carbonaceous anode rather than lithium metal, was developed by Akira Yoshino in 1985 and commercialized by a Sony and Asahi Kasei team led by Yoshio...
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    LiMn2O4, and one at 3 V with a final stoichiometry of Li2Mn2O4. 1985: Akira Yoshino demonstrated a rechargeable Li-ion battery using carbonaceous material...
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    Technologies. In 2014, Rachid Yazami, John Goodenough, Yoshio Nishi, and Akira Yoshino were awarded the Draper Prize by The National Academy of Engineering...
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    Today's lithium-ion battery, modeled after the Whittingham attempt by Akira Yoshino, was first developed in 1985. While lithium-ion batteries can be used...
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  • Japan Yoshino Shrine, a Shinto shrine in Yoshino District, Nara Prefecture, Japan Akira Yoshino (吉野 彰, born 1948), Japanese chemist Hideo Yoshino (吉野 秀雄...
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  • producer Akira Yanase (柳瀬 彰良, born 1988), Japanese water polo player Akira Yoshida (吉田 明, born 1971), Japanese rugby union player Akira Yoshino (吉野 彰, born...
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    Binghamton. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019 alongside Akira Yoshino and John B. Goodenough. Whittingham is a key figure in the history of...
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    Michel Mayor; Didier Queloz John B. Goodenough; M. Stanley Whittingham; Akira Yoshino William Kaelin Jr.; Peter J. Ratcliffe; Gregg L. Semenza Peter Handke...
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