Nobel laureate Akasaki returns home

TOKYO, Japan - Isamu Akasaki, a Meijo University professor who shared this year's Nobel Prize in Physics, shows off the Nobel medal at a press conference in Tokyo, Japan, on Dec. 12, 2014, after returning from Stockholm, where he attended the award ceremony. He said the Nobel medal is "heavy."

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