Expert Author: Dean Whittingham.
The Whittingham Hospital.
Whittingham Cricket Club.
Michael Stanley Whittingham.
This record was set by Sam Whittingham in 2008.
Stanley Whittingham was among those who moved to Exxon in 1972.
Stanley Whittingham started developing methods that could lead
to fossil-fuel-free energy technologies.
Whittingham worked with newer materials to make his battery lighter
and more efficient.
One of them, Whittingham, studied solid materials whose atoms had spaces between them.
When Whittingham began working on batteries in the 1970s, rechargeable
batteries were already available, but were bulky and inefficient.
The Whittingham Hospital in London was once Britain's largest mental hospitals,
and was a pioneer in the use of electroencephalograms.
Flintoff's father, Colin, and his brother, Chris, both played cricket,
with Colin still playing for Whittingham Cricket Club near Preston.
Goodenough had moved to Oxford University as a
professor of inorganic chemistry and he set to work on improving Whittingham's battery.
Whittingham developed the first functional lithium-ion battery in 1976,
Goodenough brought in a major improvement in 1980, while Yoshino made the first practical-use lithium-ion battery in 1985.