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Thu 09-10-2014  |
Inventors of Blue LED Win Nobel Prize in Physics |
| Taking a more practical turn, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics to three inventors of the blue light-emitting diode.
Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano, who worked together at the University of Nagoya, and Shuji Nakamura, who worked at Nichia Chemicals in Tokushima, developed bright versions of the devices in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Read the news on spectrum.ieee.org Read the scientific background of the price award on www.nobelprize.org |
