Japanese Nobel laureate Isamu Akasaki dies

Japanese Nobel laureate Isamu Akasaki dies

Photo taken in March 2015 shows Japanese physicist Isamu Akasaki, a co-winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in physics for inventing the world's first efficient blue light-emitting diodes. He died on April 1, 2021 at the age of 92.

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