Akira Yoshino

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Akira Yoshino
吉野 彰
Akira Yoshino
Born	(1948-01-30) 30 January 1948 (age 76) Suita, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Education	Kyoto University (BS, MS) Osaka University (PhD)
Awards	IEEE Medal for Environmental and Safety Technologies (2012) Global Energy Prize (2013) Charles Stark Draper Prize (2014) Japan Prize (2018) Nobel Prize (2019)
Scientific career
Fields	Electrochemistry
Institutions	Asahi Kasei Meijo University

Akira Yoshino (吉野 彰, Yoshino Akira, born 30 January 1948) is a Japanese chemist. He is a fellow of Asahi Kasei Corporation and a professor at Meijo University in Nagoya. He created the first safe, production-viable lithium-ion battery,^[1] which became used widely in cellular phones and notebook computers. Yoshino was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019 alongside M. Stanley Whittingham and John B. Goodenough.^[1]