At the age of 97, John Goodenough this week became the oldest person ever to win a Nobel Prize. The chemistry professor thereby settled an old score: 33 years before he won the award his employer, the University of Oxford, tried to make him retire before he wanted to. He “fled”, in his words, to Texas where he has spent the entire intervening period happily working — often at weekends.
97歲的約翰•古迪納夫(John Goodenough，見文首照片)成爲有史以來最高齡的諾貝兒獎(Nobel Prize)獲得者。這位化學教授因此可以算一筆舊賬了：在他獲獎的33年前，他的僱主牛津大學(University of Oxford)試圖讓他退休，當時他本人還不願退休。用他的話說，他「逃亡」到德克薩斯州，在那裏的整個時期愉快地工作著——通常是在週末。
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