Nobel laureate Akasaki meets Education Minister Shimomura

Nobel laureate Akasaki meets Education Minister Shimomura

Isamu Akasaki (L), one of the three Nobel Physics Prize winners in 2014, pays a courtesy call on Education Minister Hakubun Shimomura at the latter's office in Tokyo on Feb. 10, 2015, showing his Nobel award medal. Akasaki, lifelong professor at Meijo University in Nagoya, central Japan, said he did not think at the beginning he would succeed in his research, which eventually led to the invention of blue light-emitting diodes. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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