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Nobel laureate Nakamura after award ceremony in Stockholm

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - University of California professor Shuji Nakamura (C) poses for photographers after receiving the Noble Prize in the Stockholm Concert Hall in the Swedish capital on Dec. 10, 2014.

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3 Japan-born Nobel laureates receive prize

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - (From L) Isamu Akasaki, a professor at Meijo University in Nagoya, Hiroshi Amano, a professor at Nagoya University, and Shuji Nakamura, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics, pose for photos with their medals after the award ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall in the Swedish capital on Dec. 10, 2014. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Nagoya landmarks lit by blue LEDs to hail Nobel prize

NAGOYA, Japan - The Nagoya TV Tower and the Oasis 21 complex (foreground) are illuminated in blue with light-emitting diodes in Nagoya on Dec. 10, 2014, in celebration of the winning of the Nobel Prize in Physics by Nagoya University professor Hiroshi Amano and Meijo University professor Isamu Akasaki for inventing the blue LED. Both universities are located in the central Japan city. Another Japanese scientist, University of California professor Shuji Nakamura, also shared the honor for the same invention.

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3 Nobel laureates get ready for award ceremony

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - (From L) Shuji Nakamura, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Isamu Akasaki, a professor at Japan's Meijo University, and Hiroshi Amano, a professor at Japan's Nagoya University, shake hands during a press conference on Dec. 8, 2014, in Stockholm, Sweden, prior to the award ceremony for the year's Nobel Prize in Physics on Dec. 10.

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3 Nobel laureates get ready for award ceremony

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - (From L) Shuji Nakamura, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Hiroshi Amano, a professor at Japan's Nagoya University, and Isamu Akasaki, a professor at Japan's Meijo University, attend a press conference on Dec. 8, 2014, in Stockholm, Sweden, prior to the award ceremony for the year's Nobel Prize in Physics on Dec. 10.

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Nobel laureate Nakamura wins U.S. prize for engineering

WASHINGTON, United States, March 2 Kyodo - Shuji Nakamura, a Japanese-born professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, poses in Washington on Feb. 24, 2015, after receiving the Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering from the National Academy of Engineering. Nakamura, a co-winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of a high-brightness blue LED, received the U.S. award together with four others, including Nick Holonyak, an American engineer known as the "Father of LED."

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Nobel laureate Nakamura visits education minister

TOKYO, Japan - Shuji Nakamura (L), a Japan-born American professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Japanese Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Hakubun Shimomura pose with Nakamura's Nobel physics prize medal at the education ministry in Tokyo on Jan. 15, 2015, as Nakamura paid a courtesy visit on Shimomura. Nakamura along with two Japanese physicists won the prize last year, for contribution to the development of light-emitting diodes.

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3 Nobel laureates make commemorative speeches

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - (From R) Hiroshi Amano, a professor at Japan's Nagoya University, Isamu Akasaki, a professor at Japan's Meijo University, and Shuji Nakamura, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, receive applause after making commemorative speeches for the year's Nobel Prize in Physics in Stockholm, Sweden, on Dec. 8, 2014, prior to the Dec. 10 award ceremony.

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Nobel laureate Nakamura makes speech in Stockholm

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Shuji Nakamura, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and one of three scientists awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physics, makes a commemorative speech in Stockholm, Sweden, on Dec. 8, 2014, prior to the Dec. 10 award ceremony.

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Nobel laureate Nakamura in Stockholm for ceremony

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Shuji Nakamura, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, one of the three winners of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics, speaks with Kyodo News during an interview at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on Dec. 7, 2014, ahead of the Dec. 10 award ceremony.

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Nobel laureates meet the press prior to award ceremony

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Shuji Nakamura (R), a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Hiroshi Amano (2nd from R), a professor at Japan's Nagoya University, attend an official press conference with other 2014 Nobel Prize winners at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on Dec. 7, 2014, prior to the Dec. 10 award ceremony. Nakamura and Amano, along with Meijo University professor Isamu Akasaki, who did not attend the press conference, won the Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing and developing the blue light-emitting diode.

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Nobel laureates meet the press prior to award ceremony

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Shuji Nakamura (R), a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Hiroshi Amano, a professor at Japan's Nagoya University, share a lighthearted moment during a press conference with other 2014 Nobel Prize winners at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on Dec. 7, 2014, prior to the Dec. 10 award ceremony. Nakamura and Amano, along with Meijo University professor Isamu Akasaki, won the Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing and developing the blue light-emitting diode.

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Nobel laureates Amano, Nakamura donate items to Nobel Museum

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Items donated by two Japan-born winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics are seen at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm on Dec. 6, 2014. At front are experimental tools used by Hiroshi Amano, a professor at Nagoya University, while donations by Shuji Nakamura, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, are shown in back.

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Nobel laureate Nakamura arrives in Stockholm

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Shuji Nakamura, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, arrives in Stockholm, Sweden, on Dec. 4, 2014, to attend the Dec. 10 award ceremony. The professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will also give a speech in the Swedish capital.

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Nobel winner Nakamura meets with U.S. Pres. Obama

WASHINGTON, United States - Shuji Nakamura, professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, delivers a lecture at the Embassy of Sweden in Washington on Nov. 24, 2014. Nakamura, one of the three Japan-born scientists awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics, met U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House the same day along with three other U.S. winners of the 2014 Nobel prizes.

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PM Abe meets with Nobel winner Nakamura

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) meets with Shuji Nakamura, one of the three winners of this year's Nobel Prize in Physics, at his office in Tokyo on Nov. 5, 2014. Abe hailed Nakamura's achievements, which were made while he worked for a local chemical firm, saying the researcher "has encouraged those who continue studying in regional areas."

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Nobel winner Nakamura extends olive branch to former employer Nichia

TOKYO, Japan - Shuji Nakamura, one of the three Japan-born scientists awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics, smiles during a press conference in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Nov. 3, 2014. The 60-year-old professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, said he wants to rebuild ties with former employer Nichia Corp., despite launching a lawsuit against the chemical maker over patent rights to his groundbreaking blue light-emitting diode technology. "My Nobel Prize was made possible because Nichia led the world in LEDs," Nakamura said.

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Nobel winner Nakamura extends olive branch to former employer Nichia

TOKYO, Japan - Shuji Nakamura, one of the three Japan-born scientists awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics, holds a press conference in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Nov. 3, 2014. The 60-year-old professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, said he wants to rebuild ties with former employer Nichia Corp., despite launching a lawsuit against the chemical maker over patent rights to his groundbreaking blue light-emitting diode technology. "My Nobel Prize was made possible because Nichia led the world in LEDs," Nakamura said.

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Nobel winner Nakamura in interview in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Shuji Nakamura speaks in an interview in Tokyo on Oct. 16, 2014, after he was announced as a winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes.

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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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Nobel winner Nakamura's books shown at Univ. of Tokushima

TOKUSHIMA, Japan - A doctoral dissertation on blue light-emitting diode and books by this year's Nobel Prize winner in physics Shuji Nakamura are on display at the University of Tokushima, his alma mater, in Tokushima, western Japan, on Oct. 9, 2014.

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Nobel laureate Nakamura attends press conference

SANTA BARBARA, United States - Nobel laureate Shuji Nakamura attends a press conference on Oct. 7, 2014, at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in the United States. He said he is happy his dream of light-emitting diodes lighting has become a reality.

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Nobel laureate Nakamura attends press conference

SANTA BARBARA, United States - Nobel laureate Shuji Nakamura talks about his ongoing research at his laboratory at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in the United States on Oct. 7, 2014. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics together with two other researchers for inventing efficient blue light-emitting diodes.

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Nagoya Univ. celebrates Nobel Prize selection

NAGOYA, Japan - Michinari Hamaguchi (C), president of Nagoya University, and researchers are joyous at a press conference in Nagoya on Oct. 7, 2014, following the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' selection of Hiroshi Amano and Isamu Akasaki, current and former professor of the university, as winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2014 along with Shuji Nakamura, professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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2 Japanese, American awarded Nobel Prize for inventing blue LED

LOS ANGELES, United States - Shuji Nakamura, professor at the University of California in Santa Barbara, holds a blue light-emitting diode at the university on Oct. 7, 2014, after being jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2014 for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes, along with Hiroshi Amano, professor at Nagoya University, and Isamu Akasaki, professor at Meijo University.

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2 Japanese, American awarded Nobel Prize for inventing blue LED

OSAKA, Japan - Newspaper extra editions, reporting the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2014 to two Japanese and a Japanese-born American physicists, are handed out to passers-by in Osaka's Namba district on Oct. 7, 2014. Two Japanese physicists -- Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano -- and Japanese-born American Shuji Nakamura were awarded the prize for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes.

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2 Japanese, American awarded Nobel Prize for inventing blue LED

LOS ANGELES, United States - Shuji Nakamura, professor at the University of California in Santa Barbara, meets the press at the university on Oct. 7, 2014, after being jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2014 for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes, along with Hiroshi Amano, professor at Nagoya University, and Isamu Akasaki, professor at Meijo University.

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2 Japanese, American awarded Nobel Prize for inventing blue LED

NAGOYA, Japan - Isamu Akasaki, professor at Meijo University, receives flowers from members of his laboratory at the university in Nagoya on Oct. 7, 2014, after being jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2014 for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes, along with Shuji Nakamura, professor at the University of California in Santa Barbara, and Hiroshi Amano, professor at Nagoya University.

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2 Japanese, American awarded Nobel Prize for inventing blue LED

NAGOYA, Japan - Nagoya University students, surrounding a life-size cutout of professor Hiroshi Amano, celebrate at the university on Oct. 7, 2014, after Amano was jointly awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes, along with Shuji Nakamura, professor at the University of California in Santa Barbara, and Isamu Akasaki, professor at Meijo University.

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2014 Nobel winner Nakamura in 2005

TOKYO, Japan - Shuji Nakamura (R), a Japan-born professor at UC Santa Barbara, conducts an experiment using light-emitting diodes before junior and senior high school students in Sakae village, Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, in July 2005. Nakamura was announced as a winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2014 for the invention of efficient blue LEDs along with two other Japanese scientists in October 2014.

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2 Japanese, American awarded Nobel Prize for inventing blue LED

NAGOYA, Japan - Isamu Akasaki, professor at Meijo University, holds a press conference at the university in Nagoya on Oct. 7, 2014, after being jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2014 for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes, along with Shuji Nakamura, professor at the University of California in Santa Barbara, and Hiroshi Amano, professor at Nagoya University.

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2 Japanese, American awarded Nobel Prize for inventing blue LED

TOKYO, Japan - Combined photo shows (from L) Shuji Nakamura, professor at the University of California in Santa Barbara, Isamu Akasaki, professor at Meijo University in Nagoya, and Hiroshi Amano, professor at Nagoya University, who were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2014 on Oct. 7, 2014, for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes. Akasaki and Amano are Japanese and Nakamura is a Japanese-born American.

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Blue LED inventor Nakamura to receive Emmy Award

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Shuji Nakamura, a Japanese professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara who developed light-emitting diodes used for a range of products. Nakamura has been named as a winner of the Technology & Engineering Emmy Award, according to the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

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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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Blue diode inventor dissatisfied with patent dispute settlement

TOKYO, Japan - Shuji Nakamura, inventor of the blue-light emitting diode, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Jan. 12, one day after he and Nichia Corp., his former employer, resolved their dispute over the patent for the blue diode through mediation by the Tokyo High Court. Nakamura said he had been forced to reach the settlement by the court, adding Japan's judicial system is corrupt.

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Nichia, Nakamura settle high-profile suit on blue LED patent

TOKYO, Japan - Hidetsohi Masunaga, a lawyer for Shuji Nakamura who developed the blue light-emitting diode (LED), speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Jan. 11 after Nakamura and Nichia Corp. reached a settlement on their dispute over the patent for the diode.

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(3)Nichia ordered to pay 20 bil. yen to inventor for LED patent

TOKYO, Japan - Shuji Nakamura, who developed the blue light-emitting diode (LED), smiles Jan. 30 during a news conference in Tokyo after the Tokyo District Court ordered Nichia Corp. to pay him 20 billion yen for his transfer of patent rights to the company.

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(2)Nichia ordered to pay 20 bil. yen to inventor for LED patent

TOKYO, Japan - Shuji Nakamura, who developed the blue light-emitting diode (LED), is surrounded by reporters in front of the Tokyo District Court in central Tokyo after the court ordered Nichia Corp. to pay him 20 billion yen for his transfer of patent rights to the company.

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(1)Nichia ordered to pay 20 bil. yen to inventor for LED patent

TOKYO, Japan - Shuji Nakamura, who developed the blue light-emitting diode (LED), smiles in front of the Tokyo District Court in central Tokyo on Jan. 30 after the court ordered Nichia Corp. to pay him 20 billion yen for his transfer of patent rights to the company.

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(1)Court denies professor's claim to patent for landmark invention

TOKYO, Japan - Shuji Nakamura (L), a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, accompanied by his lawyer, arrives at the Tokyo District Court on Sept. 19 to attend a court session on a suit he filed over the patent for a key semiconductor device he invented.

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(2)Court denies professor's claim to patent for landmark invention

TOKYO, Japan - Shuji Nakamura (L), a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, speaks at a news conference Sept. 19 after the Tokyo District Court acknowledged Nichia Corp.'s ownership of the patent for a key semiconductor device, rejecting a suit filed by him, the inventor of the blue-color light-emitting diode (LED).

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2 Japanese researchers to receive Franklin Institute awards

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Shuji Nakamura, a professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara, who was named winner of a 2002 Franklin Institute medal Jan. 28 along with Sumio Iijima, research fellow at NEC Corp.

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Blue-color LED developer sues company for patent, reward

TOKUSHIMA, Japan - Shuji Nakamura (file photo), developer of the blue-color light-emitting diode (LED), filed a lawsuit with the Tokyo District Court on Aug. 23, demanding 2 billion yen and recognition that the semiconductor patent belongs to him. Nakamura, professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, sued Nichia Corp., where he worked as an engineer until 1999, saying the company made unreasonable profits through its exclusive use of the blue-color LED patent.

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2 Japanese researchers to receive Franklin Institute awards

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Shuji Nakamura, a professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara, who was named winner of a 2002 Franklin Institute medal Jan. 28 along with Sumio Iijima, research fellow at NEC Corp.

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Nichia, Nakamura settle high-profile suit on blue LED patent

TOKYO, Japan - Hidetsohi Masunaga, a lawyer for Shuji Nakamura who developed the blue light-emitting diode (LED), speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Jan. 11 after Nakamura and Nichia Corp. reached a settlement on their dispute over the patent for the diode. (Kyodo)

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Blue diode inventor dissatisfied with patent dispute settlement

TOKYO, Japan - Shuji Nakamura, inventor of the blue-light emitting diode, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Jan. 12, one day after he and Nichia Corp., his former employer, resolved their dispute over the patent for the blue diode through mediation by the Tokyo High Court. Nakamura said he had been forced to reach the settlement by the court, adding Japan's judicial system is corrupt. (Kyodo)

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(2)Court denies professor's claim to patent for landmark inventi

TOKYO, Japan - Shuji Nakamura (L), a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, speaks at a news conference Sept. 19 after the Tokyo District Court acknowledged Nichia Corp.'s ownership of the patent for a key semiconductor device, rejecting a suit filed by him, the inventor of the blue-color light-emitting diode (LED). (Kyodo)

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Nobel laureate Nakamura receives Global Energy Prize in Russia

Nobel Physics Prize laureate Shuji Nakamura (L), a professor of materials and electrical and computer engineering at UC Santa Barbara, receives the Global Energy Prize, a prestigious Russian award, for 2015 at a ceremony held in St. Petersburg on June 19, 2015, in recognition of his invention, commercialization and development of energy-efficient LED lighting technology. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nobel laureate Nakamura's lighting company opens office in Yokohama

Nobel Physics Prize winner Shuji Nakamura holds up a high-quality light-emitting diode lamp during a press conference in Yokohama on April 23, 2015. Nakamura said his U.S.-based company Soraa Inc. has opened an office in Yokohama to market the lamps in Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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2014 Nobel physics laureates attend academic conference in Japan

The three Japanese academics who jointly received the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for developing blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) sit at a meeting of the Japan Society of Applied Physics held at Tokai University in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, on March 13, 2015. The scientists are (from R) Meijo University professor Isamu Akasaki, Nagoya University professor Hiroshi Amano and professor Shuji Nakamura of the University of California, Santa Barbara. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo