“My path to chemistry began in the fourth grade of elementary school, when my teacher recommended that I read ‘The Chemical History of a Candle’ by Michael Faraday. The book made it easy to understand why a candle burns, what happens when it burns, and why it has a wick. This stimulated my curiosity, and I became fascinated with chemistry.”
In his Nobel Prize biography, 2019 chemistry laureate Akira Yoshino tells us about the book that changed his life. Yoshino received the chemistry prize “for the development of lithium-ion batteries.”
Read his full life story here: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2019/yoshino/biographical/