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:
- University of California – Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Shuji Nakamura
Born: 1954-05-22 in Ikata, Japan
Gender: male
Field: Inventor of the blue LED, 2014 Nobel laureate in physics
Biography
Shuji Nakamura is a Japanese electronic engineer and co-inventor of the blue LED, a major breakthrough in lighting technology. He specializes in the field of semiconductor technology. He is Professor of Materials and of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) since 1999.