Nobel laureate Akasaki honored by Kagoshima Prefecture

Nobel laureate Akasaki honored by Kagoshima Prefecture

Isamu Akasaki (L), one of the 2014 Nobel physics prize winners behind the invention of energy-efficient blue light-emitting diodes, receives his honorary citizen certificate from Kagoshima Gov. Yuichiro Ito at the prefectural government office in Kagoshima on June 25, 2015. Akasaki hails from the southwestern Japanese prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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