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Trio shares Nobel Prize for LED that could change lighting
Isamu Akasaki Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura won the Nobel Prize for developing a practical blue LED enabling white light and energy efficiency. The three scientists transformed illumination and now LEDs illuminate homes offices and screens worldwide. Nakamura a UCSB professor Akasaki Nagoya University Amano Nagoya University and Nichia Chemicals were involved in the breakthrough. Nakamura expressed happiness that his LED lighting dream became reality as energy efficient bulbs become common.
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Stockholm
Nobel Committee
Isamu Akasaki
Hiroshi Amano
USS
Shuji Nakamura
Mark Rea
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy
N.Y
Nadarajah Narendran
United States
Nick Holonyak Jr
University of Illinois
Holonyak
Urbana
Ill
Associated Press
Katherine
Meijo University
Nagoya
Nagoya University
University of California At
Santa Barbara
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Royal Swedish Academy
Nakamura
Delaina Amos
University of Louisville
Ziegler
Illinois
Lemelson-Mit
National Medal of Technology
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers