Nobel Prize Akira Yoshino Exchange with local Japanese children December 8 21:26
To attend the Nobel Prize ceremony, Akira Yoshino, visiting Stockholm, Sweden, visited a local Japanese school and deepened interaction with children.
On the 7th of Japan time, Mr. Yoshino visited a school with Japanese children from junior high school students in Stockholm with his wife Kumiko.
Mr. Yoshino talked about the history of lithium-ion battery research in front of the children, making it easy for children to understand and occasionally joking.
In this, Yoshino-san introduced an episode in which he became interested in science when he was encouraged by a teacher in charge of a book called "The Science of Candles" by British scientist Faraday when he was an elementary school student. .
When asked by the children, “How long do you want to do research?”, Yoshino, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in the United States, continued studying at the age of 97. Lithium-ion batteries are expected to contribute to solving environmental problems. In order to come up with an answer, we have to work as hard as Good Inaf. " .