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Isamu Akasaki
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complete name:

Isamu Akasaki

nobel prize:

physics

award year:

2014

together with:

Shuji Nakamura

together with:

Hiroshi Amano

prize share:

Prize share: 1/3

rational:

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2014 was awarded jointly to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura "for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources."

biography:

Biography

laureate facts:

Facts

laureate lecture:

Lecture

given name:

Isamu

family name:

Akasaki

occupation:

scientist

occupation:

professor

occupation:

physicist

field of work:

physicist

work location:

Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

description:

Isamu Akasaki is a Japanese scientist, specializing in the field of semiconductor technology and Nobel Prize laureate, best known for inventing the bright gallium nitride (GaN) p-n junction blue LED in 1989 and subsequently the high-brightness GaN blue LED as well. For this and other achievements Isamu Akasaki was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology in 2009 and the IEEE Edison Medal in 2011. He was also awarded the 2014 Nobel prize in Physics, together with Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura, "for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes, which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources".

pronunciation:

(赤崎勇 Akasaki Isamu)

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image citation:

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2014. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2014/summary/>

date birth:

1929

usual name:

Isamu Akasaki