Title:

Professor and Virginia H. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering

Affiliation:

The University of Texas at Austin

1 University Station A5300

Austin,Texas 78712 USA

Gender:

Male

Award Discipline:

Engineering

Award Year:

2011

Citation:

"For groundbreaking cathode research that led to the first commercial lithium ion battery, which has since revolutionized consumer electronics with technical applications for portable and stationary power."

President Barack H. Obama in the East Room of the White House on February 1, 2013.