Dr. M. Stanley Whittingham

Stan Whittingham is a SUNY distinguished professor of Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering at Binghamton U. and an honorary Fellow of New College, Oxford. He is the 2019 Chemistry Nobel Laureate for the discovery of lithium rechargeable batteries, the Medaglia Galvani awardee of the Italian Chemical Society and the 2023 VinFutures Grand Prize co-winner for seminal contributions to reducing climate warming using solar and storage. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, Fellow of The Royal Society and a foreign member of Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales de España. He presently is a lead on the DOE Battey500 consortium, was a member of Li-Bridge and presently leads the NENY-Battery-NY $113M economic development effort. He is on the leadership team of both NYBEST and NAATBatt.