John B. Goodenough: “Don’t retire too early!”

That’s John Goodenough’s straightforward advice for how to have a long life in research. The oldest-ever Nobel Prize recipient, at 97, he was in London to receive the Copley Medal from the Royal Society when news of his Nobel Prize broke. In this call with Adam Smith, recorded during the afternoon of this day of two Prizes, he describes the developments he’s currently working on and his thoughts on the use of the technologies he has helped develop.