Last week Nobel Prize-winning chemist John B Goodenough, famed for his contribution to lithium-ion battery research, passed away. For a number of years, it looked like he wouldn’t make it to Nobel Prize recognition (the prizes are, rightly or wrongly, not awarded posthumously), but in 2019 he shared the prize with two other key figures in the field of battery science. There’s a nice obituary summarising his life and work in C&EN here.