Info Interview with Akira Yoshino: 2019 Nobel Chemistry Prize Winner

[WST16]

I like this interview.

Dr. Yoshino’s research into Lithium Ion batteries is something experienced by all of us.
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Interview with Akira Yoshino: 2019 Nobel Chemistry Prize Winner - Today's Close-Up | NHK WORLD-JAPAN On Demand

We welcome as our guest Akira Yoshino, a co-winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Yoshino greatly contributed to the development of lithium-ion batteries that are used in smartphones, personal computers, electric cars, and even on the International Space Station. He shares with us his...

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[iStone]

Sometimes it is really very lucky and luxurious to be able to work(R&D) on a topic for lifetime. Yes it is sometimes even not so much matter about your capability or intelligence. It is about the endurance, your surroundings, your family...

In general, I think if can work on a topic for lifetime is a ultra happiness. To get prize like Nobel is just a small fraction of that happiness.

 

[fredbert]

If it's available (BBC podcast) this might be interesting BBC Radio 4 - The Life Scientific, Clare Grey on the Big Battery Challenge

 

[WST16]

I liked his philosophy. What amazed me is that his company is not directly into the batteries business, yet he was allowed to work on his research for a long time until he was successful.
Not many companies can endure or allow that, especially nowadays where it’s all about profits and share prices where they try to short-circuit the life cycle to get to the go-to-market phase as soon as possible!

 

[jeyare]

really nice to listen such smart uncle

 

[WST16]

Not only a smart uncle, but a smart uncle with a Nobel prize
I wonder what does he think of uncle Pokémon