Donald R. Sadoway is the John F. Elliott Professor of Materials Chemistry in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He obtained the Ph.D. in Chemical Metallurgy from the University of Toronto in 1977 and joined the MIT faculty in 1978.
The author of over 150 scientific papers and holder of 22 U.S. patents, his research is directed towards the development of rechargeable batteries for grid-level storage and towards en-vironmentally sound technologies for the extraction of metals.
He is the founder of two companies, Ambri and Boston Electrometallurgical. Viewed over 1,600,000 times, his TED talk is a narrative about inventing inventors as much as it about inventing technology.
In 2012 he was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World.