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A close-up view of Nobel Prize Chemistry winner Eric Betzig
2014-10-08 18:56:40| Biotech - Topix.net
Dr. Eric Betzig is one of three recipients of this year's Nobel Prize for Chemistry. In 2011, he showed Reuters what his team at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute calls the ''Bessel beam plane illumination microscope.'
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Infographic: 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
2014-10-08 15:51:00| Chemical Processing
ACS highlights achievements from Eric Betzig, Ph.D.; Stefan Hell, Ph.D.; and William Moerner, Ph.D.
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Nobel Prize A Morale Booster for Japanese Electronics
2014-10-08 14:27:40| Electronics - Topix.net
The Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded this week to three scientists born in Japan, is a morale booster for the country's beleaguered electronics industry, showing how obscure companies specializing in parts and materials retain a technological edge.
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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...
Blue LED inventors awarded Nobel Prize for creating white LED lighting revolution
2014-10-07 13:40:42| Extremetech
The three Japanese scientists who invented the first efficient blue LEDs in the mid 1990s have received the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics. The invention of efficient blue LEDs was a foundational step in the creation of the bright white LED lights being produced by the likes of Cree and Philips, which are driving the most significant transformation in lighting technology since the invention of the incandescent bulb.