Inventors of blue LED win physics prize

Japanese trio awarded Nobel prize in physics for work that led to the development of the elusive blue light emitting diode

The 2014 Nobel prize in physics has been awarded to Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano, of Nagoya University, Japan, and Shuji Nakamura of the University of California, Santa Barbara, US, for ‘the invention of efficient blue light emitting diodes (LED) which has enabled bright and energy saving white light sources’.

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