2 Japanese, American awarded Nobel Prize for inventing blue LED

OSAKA, Japan - Newspaper extra editions, reporting the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2014 to two Japanese and a Japanese-born American physicists, are handed out to passers-by in Osaka's Namba district on Oct. 7, 2014. Two Japanese physicists -- Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano -- and Japanese-born American Shuji Nakamura were awarded the prize for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes. (Kyodo)

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