The Nobel Prize in Physics 2014
Awarded on: 2014-10-07
"for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources"
Affiliations:
- Nagoya University – Nagoya, Japan
Hiroshi Amano
Born: 1960-09-11 in Hamamatsu, Japan
Gender: male
Field: Japanese physicist, engineer and inventor
Biography
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.