Here are all the patents in the USPTO with inventor Goodenough and mentioning battery in the text. I am travelling, so I leave it to the rest of you to sort relevance.

PAT. NO. Title
1 9,362,562 Full-Text Cathode materials for secondary (rechargeable) lithium batteries
2 9,093,692 Full-Text Oxide-ion conductors and related composites and devices
3 8,785,043 Full-Text Cathode materials for secondary (rechargeable) lithium batteries
4 8,647,773 Full-Text Niobium oxide compositions and methods for using same
5 8,282,691 Full-Text Cathode materials for secondary (rechargeable) lithium batteries
6 8,067,117 Full-Text Cathode materials for secondary (rechargeable) lithium batteries
7 7,998,617 Full-Text Cathode materials for secondary (rechargeable) lithium batteries
8 7,972,728 Full-Text Cathode materials for secondary (rechargeable) lithium batteries
9 7,964,308 Full-Text Cathode materials for secondary (rechargeable) lithium batteries
10 7,960,058 Full-Text Cathode materials for secondary (rechargeable) lithium batteries
11 7,955,733 Full-Text Cathode materials for secondary (rechargeable) lithium batteries
12 6,939,066 Full-Text Hand-held, freestanding, double-sided electronic keyboard
13 6,514,640 Full-Text Cathode materials for secondary (rechargeable) lithium batteries
14 6,391,493 Full-Text Cathode materials for secondary (rechargeable) lithium batteries
15 5,910,382 Full-Text Cathode materials for secondary (rechargeable) lithium batteries
16 5,105,773 Full-Text Method and apparatus for enhancing combustion in an internal combustion engine through electrolysis
17 4,969,096 Full-Text Method for selecting communication devices for non-speaking patients
18 4,507,371 Full-Text Solid state cell wherein an anode, solid electrolyte and cathode each comprise a cubic-close-packed framework structure
19 4,049,891 Full-Text Compositions for fast alkali-metal-ion transport

He wouldn't be the first to do useful work and then go completely bonkers. Cf. Josephson, Kurzweil for starters.

I know someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows Stephen Hawking!

Well, I sure hope to be wrong on this one.

But,. You know...

Posted By: Angusinventor Goodenough

Is his first name Boris?

Posted By: Pathoskeptic

Posted By: AngusHe wouldn't be the first to do useful work and then go completely bonkers. Cf. Josephson, Kurzweil for starters.

Kary Mullis is among my very favorite nuts. I think he even started that way.

After receiving his PhD, Mullis left science to write fiction, but quit and became a biochemist at a medical school in Kansas City. He then managed a bakery for two years. Mullis returned to science at the encouragement of friend Thomas White, who later got Mullis a job with the biotechnology company Cetus Corporation of Emeryville, California. Mullis worked as a DNA chemist

You wonder sometimes what the proportion of luck is in the Nobel. It's more than zero and maybe not much less than 1 in some cases.

But, yes, Goodnenough has serious achievements. I am far too dumb to even begin to fathom what this guy means when it comes to batteries.

And if he has gone nuts, maybe, just maybe, even if I do not have great achievements in my career, it is not unreasonable to expect I can join him soon enough.

Posted By: alsetalokinI know someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows Stephen Hawking!

He ran over my foot in a record store once. It was my fault.

I watched a movie about him.

My Bacon number is 3.