Japanese Nobel laureate Isamu Akasaki dies

Japanese Nobel laureate Isamu Akasaki dies

Photo taken in December 2014 shows Japanese physicist Isamu Akasaki holding his Novel Prize medal in physics after jointly winning it 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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