He was, he said in a memoir, “Witness to Grace” (2008), the unwanted child of an agnostic Yale University professor of religion and a mother with whom he never bonded.
The two sides, called electrodes, hold charges — a negative one called an anode, and a positive one called a cathode.
When a battery releases energy, positively charged ions shuttle from the anode to the cathode, creating a current.
A rechargeable battery is plugged into a socket to draw electricity, forcing the ions to shuttle back to the anode, where they are stored until needed again.
Materials used for the anode, cathode and electrolyte determine the quantity and speed of the ions, and thus the battery’s power.
Persons:
Grace ”, Clarence Zener, Edward Teller, Enrico Fermi
Organizations:
Yale University, Yale, Army Air Forces, University of Chicago, Lincoln Laboratory
Locations:
Groton, M.I.T, Oxford