Taking a more practical bend, the Nobel Committee has awarded this year’s prize in physics to the 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 the devices in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
“Their inventions were revolutionary,” the Nobel Foundation said in a press release. “Incandescent light bulbs lit the 20th century; the 21st century will be lit by LED lamps.”
via IEEE Spectrum
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