Nobel laureates Akasaki, Amano attend press conference

Nobel laureates Akasaki, Amano attend press conference

NAGOYA, Japan - Nobel laureates Hiroshi Amano (R) and Isamu Akasaki show blue light-emitting diodes during their joint press conference at Nagoya University in the central Japan city of Nagoya on Oct. 10, 2014. The two won the Nobel Prize in Physics together with another researcher for inventing the blue LED.

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