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-American electronic engineer and inventor of the blue LED, a major breakthrough in lighting technology. Nakamura specializes in the field of semiconductor technology, and he is a professor of materials science at the College of Engineering of the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).