Born: 1929-01-30 in Chiran, Japan
Gender: male
Field: Japanese engineer (1929–2021)
Isamu Akasaki was a Japanese engineer and physicist, specializing in the field of semiconductor technology and Nobel Prize laureate, best known for inventing the bright gallium nitride (GaN) p-n junction blue LED in 1989 and subsequently the high-brightness GaN blue LED as well.
Awarded on: 2014-10-07
"for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources"
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