Nobel Prize for a Jenens native - The City of Light is thrilled

Jena is thrilled

Jena's Lord Mayor Dr. Thomas Nitzsche congratulates the 2019 Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry - a Jena native. Prof. Dr. John Bannister Goodenough was born in Jena by chance on 22 July 1922: his father was convinced that Jena had a particularly good maternity clinic.

Both the choice of Jena as a birthplace and the implementation of your fundamental research are an incentive for us. The aim of our work is to create the best conditions for science and research for the benefit of mankind. I congratulate you warmly!

Mayor Thomas Nitzsche addressed the award winner.

As a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, Goodenough developed one of the basic requirements for commercially successful rechargeable batteries. This draws a parallel with today's Jena. Goodenough's research forms the basis for work on the batteries of the future. These are being developed at the "Center for Energy and Environmental Chemistry" (CEEC Jena) at Friedrich Schiller University Jena.The continuous expansion of the institute in Jena is supported by the outstanding impact of its director Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schubert.

In 2018, Prof. Goodenough received an honorary doctorate from Friedrich Schiller University Jena. At the ceremony, he was presented with a copy of his birth certificate from 1922. Another one will soon adorn the room of Lord Mayor Thomas Nitzsche.