Nobel winners Amano, Akasaki show blue LEDs

Nobel winners Amano, Akasaki show blue LEDs

NAGOYA, Japan - Hiroshi Amano (R) and Isamu Akasaki, winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2014, show blue light-emitting diodes at a press conference held at Nagoya University in Nagoya, Japan, on Oct. 10, 2014. Akasaki, Amano and Shuji Nakamura won the prize for the invention of efficient blue LEDs.

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