1) Akira Yoshino
2) William Francis Giauque
3) M Stanley Whittingham
4) John Bannister Goodenough
Explanation:
John Bannister Goodenough is a German American professor at the University of Texas at Austin, US. He becomes the oldest winner of a Nobel prize. The previous record-holder was Arthur Ashkin, who won the Physics Nobel in 2018 at 96. Goodenough doubled the lithium battery’s potential, creating the right conditions for a vastly more powerful and useful battery.