Chemistry Nobel laureate among those recognised in King’s birthday honours

Lithium-ion battery pioneer, Stanley Whittingham, has been recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours 2024, alongside others from the chemistry community.

Whittingham, director of the NorthEast Center for Chemical Energy Storage at Binghamton University and chemistry Nobel laureate, was named a Knight Bachelor for his services to chemistry. Whittingham was a pioneer in the development of lithium-ion batteries, for which he jointly won the Nobel prize in chemistry in 2019 with John Goodenough and Akira Toshino. He holds the original patent on the use of intercalation chemistry in high-power density, highly-reversible lithium batteries.