Shuji nakamura nobel prize
Shuji nakamura nobel prize list.
Shuji nakamura nobel prize
Shuji Nakamura
Inventor of the blue LED, 2014 Nobel laureate in physics
Shuji Nakamura (中村 修二, Nakamura Shūji, born May 22, 1954) is a Japanese-Americanelectronic engineer and inventor of the blue LED, a major breakthrough in lighting technology.[5] Nakamura specializes in the field of semiconductor technology, and he is a professor of materials science at the College of Engineering of the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).[6]
Together with Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano, Nakamura received the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics "for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes, which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources".
In 2015, his input into the commercialization and development of energy-efficient white LED lighting technology was recognized by the Global Energy Prize. In 2021, Nakamura, along with Akasaki, Nick Holonyak, M. George Craford, and Russell D.
Dupuis, were awarded the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Enginee