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Akira Yoshino of Asahi Kasei Corporation poses with a bouquet of flowers in Tokyo Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019, following an announcement that he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The prize went to John B. Goodenough of the University of Texas; M. Stanley Whittingham of the State University of New York at Binghamton; and Yoshino. (Yuta Omori/Kyodo News via AP)