Blue LED inventor Nakamura awarded Millennium Technology Prize

Blue LED inventor Nakamura awarded Millennium Technology Prize

HELSINKI, Finland - Shuji Nakamura, a Japanese professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara who developed light-emitting diodes used for a range of products, speaks to reporters before receiving the 2006 Millennium Technology Prize in Helsinki on Sept. 8.

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