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: Japanese–American electronics engineer (born 1954)
Biography
Shuji Nakamura is a Japanese–American electronics engineer and co-inventor of the blue LED, a major breakthrough in lighting technology. For this achievement, Nakamura, together with Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2014.