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Nobel Prize Goes to Inventors Blue LED: Why It Was Revolutionary
2014-10-07 22:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: The 2014 Nobel Prize in physics went Tuesday to three scientists who gave lighting a makeover by inventing blue LED lights. The award recognizes a seemingly commonplace innovation, but one that has paved the way for a sea change in lighting efficiency that is under way around the world. Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji Nakamura developed the blue light-emitting diode (LED) in Japan in the early 1990s, triggering a "fundamental transformation of lighting technology," according to a press...
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