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John B. Goodenough

American materials scientist1922 to 2023

Supervised 1 doctoral student at University of Oxford; Wikidata names Clarence Zener as doctoral advisor. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 8 other registers.

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Students1

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M. P. Dare-Edwards “Mechanistic studies on semiconductor electrodes”
1981 · University of Oxford · doctoral

Advisors on Wikidata1

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Clarence Zener

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The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

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stated by WikidataClarence Zener
2 steps up
stated by WikidataEdwin C. Kemble
3 steps up
stated by WikidataPercy Williams Bridgman
4 steps up
stated by WikidataWallace Clement Sabine

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 1 person: 1 cited by thesis records.

Education and career6

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1942 to 1948
Air National Guard
worked
1976 to 1986
University of Oxford
worked
undated
Yale University
studied
undated
University of Chicago
studied
undated
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
worked
undated
University of Texas at Austin
worked

At a glance

known as: physicist, inventor, meteorologist, university teacher
fields: solid-state physics, materials science, Nobel Prize, lithium-ion battery
degrees: Doctor of Philosophy, from 1952
awards: Fellow of the American Physical Society, honorary doctor of the University of Bordeaux, 1967, Centenary Prize, 1975, Von Hippel Award, 1989, ACM Fellow, 1995, Olin Palladium Award, 1999, Japan Prize, 2001, honorary doctorate of the University of Santiago de Compostela, 2002, Enrico Fermi Award, 2009, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, 2010, National Medal of Science, 2011, Charles Stark Draper Prize, 2014, The Eric and Sheila Samson Prime Minister's Prize for Innovation in Alternative Fuels for Transportation, 2015, Clarivate Citation Laureates, 2015, Welch Award in Chemistry, 2017, Benjamin Franklin Medal, 2018, Copley Medal, 2019, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2019, Washington Award, 2021, honorary doctor of the University of Jena
member of: Royal Society of London, 2010, National Academy of Sciences, from 2012, French Academy of Sciences, from 1992, National Academy of Engineering, from 1976, Association for Computing Machinery, from 1995
Wikipedia: in 61 languages

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Elsewhere10

identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaJohn B. Goodenough
stated by WikidataWikidataQ906529
stated by WikidataORCID0000-0001-9350-3034
stated by WikidataVIAF7515028
stated by WikidataGND1196728704
stated by WikidataIdRef061420433
stated by WikidataISNI0000000115914479

papers

stated by WikidataGoogle ScholarU8jmzF0AAAAJ
stated by WikidataDBLP84/1640
stated by WikidataScopus35493420800

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Read on 30 October 2026. A citation names the day the record was read, not a version.

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@misc{academicancestry_Q906529,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{John B. Goodenough: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q906529},
  note = {read on 2026-10-30}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 30). John B. Goodenough: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-30]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q906529