Nobel laureate Amano returns home

Nobel laureate Amano returns home

NAGOYA, Japan - Nobel laureate Hiroshi Amano smiles at Chubu International Airport as he receives a bouquet from a student of his Nagoya University laboratory on Oct. 10, 2014, after returning from his business trip to France. Amano won the Nobel Prize in Physics together with two other researchers for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes.

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