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Donald Sadoway

Professor of materials chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Donald Robert Sadoway (born 7 March 1950) is professor emeritus of materials chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a noted expert on batteries and has done significant research on how to improve the performance and longevity of portable power sources.²

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Born Mar 7, 1950.¹

About

In parallel, he is an expert on the extraction of metals from their ores and the inventor of molten oxide electrolysis, which has the potential to produce crude steel without the use of carbon reductant thereby totally eliminating greenhouse gas emissions.

From Wikipedia’s article on Donald Sadoway, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.²

Companies

AmbriFounder¹⁶

Early life and education

1973University of Toronto Master of Applied Science; metallurgy^{3 4}
1974 to 1977University of Toronto Doctor of Philosophy^{3 5}

Sadoway was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He did both his undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Toronto, receiving his PhD in 1977. There he focused his studies on chemical metallurgy. He also served on the National Executive of the Ukrainian Canadian Students' Union (SUSK) from 1972 to 1974. In 1977, he received a NATO postdoctoral fellowship from the National Research Council of Canada and came to MIT to conduct his postdoctoral research under Julian Szekely. Sadoway joined the MIT faculty in 1978. On 19 June 2013, Sadoway was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Engineering by the University of Toronto in recognition of his contributions to sustainable energy and sustainable metal production as well as to higher education both in curriculum and in teaching style. In 2014, Sadoway received an honorary doctorate from NTNU, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

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Career

Occupation: researcher, engineer.⁹

Since 1978Worked at Massachusetts Institute of Technology^{6 7}
Date not recordedFounded Ambri⁸

Personal life

BornMar 7, 1950, Toronto¹⁰
CitizenshipUnited States¹¹

Awards

Date not recordedhonorary doctor of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology¹²

Sources

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WikidataDonald Sadoway: Founded Ambri, on Wikidata
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Wikimedia CommonsDonald Sadoway photo by Thor Nielsen/NTNU, CC BY-SA 2.0