How to pronounce “whittingham” in English

Whittingham later said, "I went in there and explained it, five minutes, 10 minutes at the most, and within a week they said yes,

Whittingham's design used pure lithium, which worked brilliantly, until it didn't.

Whittingham published his design in 1976, and Exxon licensed the patent to a few manufacturers, but with no funding and no momentum,

Now Whittingham just had to decide which ions to use.

What Whittingham had created here was a rechargeable battery, one that worked reliably cycle after cycle with incredible consistency.

The material Whittingham chose for the cathode, titanium disulfide, capped the cell at just 2.4 volts, but Goodenough believed that with a better cathode material, he could do better.

And this is exactly the problem Whittingham was trying to solve.

So suddenly, Whittingham's side project became a top priority.

- So, Whittingham had to switch out the water-based electrolyte for something else, and that change unlocked the possibility of higher voltages.

- For all its promise, Whittingham's battery was just too dangerous, and then the oil crisis ended.

Fortunately, a copy of Whittingham's paper made it across the Atlantic to Oxford University in England, where it caught the attention of John B. Goodenough,

In 2019, Whittingham, Goodenough and Yoshino finally received the Nobel Prize in chemistry for an invention that in the committee's words "Revolutionized our way of life."

In 1972, a 32-year-old British chemist named Stanley Whittingham was studying how different materials store energy at Exxon's research lab in New Jersey.

This combination of low density and the tendency to give away its electron made lithium perfect for Whittingham's vision of this high energy density battery.

Amazingly, despite just being an early prototype, Whittingham's battery came close to that 99%.

In the winter of 1973, Exxon's managers summoned Whittingham to the company's New York office.