“Revising one sentence” is the title on Lydia Davis’s lucid collection and according to her if a short story is a love affair and a novel is a marriage, then her very short stories sometimes just a single sentence is more like a one-night stand. Spanning more than 30 years Essays, the first of two…
97-year-old John Goodenough winner of Noble prize
John Goodenough of the University of Texas in Austin, who is still active in research to lead the development of rechargeable Lithium-ion batteries that power everything mobile phones to laptops and even electric vehicles, at the age of 97.
John Goodenough was the oldest laureate in any discipline in the 118-year history of Nobel Prizes, is one of the three recipients of Nobel Prize in Chemistry yesterday. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Prof Goodenough, Stanley Whittingham of Binghamton University in New York and Akira Yoshino of Meijo University had laid the foundation of a wireless and potentially carbon-free society. The trio will receive equal shares of the SKr 9m ( $904,000) prize
