Groton School is a private, college-preparatory, day and boarding school located in Groton, Massachusetts, United States. It is affiliated with the Episcopal tradition.
The design of St. John's Chapel (1900) reflects the school's low church tendencies. Its architect, a high churchman, proposed adding an ornate reredos like the one he built for St. Paul's School, but Endicott Peabody vetoed it.
The walls of the Schoolroom (the study hall) are covered with wooden tablets bearing the names of every graduate and every member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Groton School, as viewed from the top of St. John's Chapel. Hundred House is on the left and the Schoolhouse is on the right.
The Dining Hall (formerly the gymnasium).
John Bannister Goodenough was an American materials scientist, a solid-state physicist, and a Nobel laureate in chemistry. From 1986 he was a professor of Materials Science, Electrical Engineering and
Groton School
…family incomes under $150,000 attend for free. The school's list of notable alumni includes U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Nobel laureate John B. Goodenough. Groton School was founded in 1884 by Endicott Peabody, an Episcopal priest. Peabody was backed by Harvard president Charles Eliot and affluent figures…
Blue plaque erected by the Royal Society of Chemistry commemorating work towards the rechargeable lithium-ion battery at Oxford
Goodenough receiving the 2009 Enrico Fermi Award from U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu.