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Shuji Nakamura, Japanese-American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate

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Shuji Nakamura

Inventor of the blue LED, 2014 Nobel laureate in physics

Shuji Nakamura is a Japanese electronic engineer, co-inventor of the blue LED, a major breakthrough in lighting technology, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2014. Nakamura specializes in the field of semiconductor technology, and he is a professor of materials…
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Nobel Prize in Physics

One of five prizes established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel

The Nobel Prize in Physics is an annual award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for those who have made the most outstanding contributions to mankind in the field of physics. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and…
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