The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino for the development of lithium-ion batteries, announced the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Wednesday.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded by the RoyalSwedish Academy of Sciences and is one of the five Nobel Prizes that wereestablished by the will of Alfred Nobel, a business, chemist, engineer,inventor and philanthropist.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded 110times to 180 individuals between 1901 and 2018.

It may be mentioned that Canadian-American cosmologistJames Peebles and Swiss Scientists Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz won the 2019Nobel Prize in Physics for revealing the wonder of the evolution of theuniverse and discovering planets orbiting distant suns.

On the other hand, the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physiologyor Medicine was awarded to scientists William G Kaelin, Jr. Peter J Ratcliffeand Gregg L Semenza their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygenavailability.  

The Nobel Prize for Literature will be announced onThursday while the Nobel Prize for Peace will be out on Friday.

On Monday, October 14, the Nobel Memorial Prize inEconomic Sciences — popularly known as Nobel Prize in Economics will beannounced.