Their discoveries pave the way for promising new strategies to fight anemia, cancer and several other diseases.
Lithium-ion batteries have revolutionised our lives since they first entered the market in 1991.
The Nobel Prize in Physics was on Tuesday awarded with one half to James Peebles for his theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology and the other half jointly to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for discovering an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.