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岁的约翰•古迪纳夫(John Goodenough，见文首照片)成为有史以来最高龄的诺贝尔奖(Nobel Prize)获得者。这位化学教授因此可以算一笔旧账了：在他获奖的33年前，他的雇主牛津大学(University of Oxford)试图让他退休，当时他本人还不愿退休。用他的话说，他“逃亡”到德克萨斯州，在那里的整个时期愉快地工作着——通常是在周末。
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