Hiroshi Amano, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

Hiroshi Amano is a Japanese physicist, engineer and inventor specializing in the field of semiconductor technology. He was the co-inventor of the blue LED, for which he was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics together with Isamu Akasaki and Shuji Nakamura.

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 awarded since 1901, the others being the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Physics is traditionally the first award presented in the Nobel Prize ceremony.