Shuji Nakamura, Nobel Prize-Winning Materials Scientist

Shuji Nakamura, Japanese-born American materials scientist who was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs). He shared the prize with Japanese materials scientists Akasaki Isamu and Amano Hiroshi. Nakamura received bachelor’s (1977) and master’s (1979)

Biography of Nobel laureate Shuji Nakamura - Nakamura - 2015 - Annalen der Physik - Wiley Online Library

Shuji Nakamura fought for fair patent compensation, won the Physics Nobel for blue LEDs along with two others.

What has the Physics Nobel Prize ever done for me? - Khmer Times

Shuji Nakamura Wins Nobel Prize in Physics

Shuji Nakamura – Keynote Speaker

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Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics, Professor Shuji Nakamura Visited Waseda University – Waseda University

Invention of blue LEDs wins physics Nobel - BBC News

Blue and white LEDs - Millennium Technology Prize

UofL awards renewable energy prize to LED lighting pioneer