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    Isamu Akasaki (赤﨑 勇, Akasaki Isamu, January 30, 1929 – April 1, 2021) was a Japanese engineer and physicist, specializing in the field of semiconductor...
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    his work he was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics together with Isamu Akasaki and Shuji Nakamura for "the invention of efficient blue light-emitting...
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    commercial LEDs. In the early 1990s, Shuji Nakamura, Hiroshi Amano and Isamu Akasaki invented blue LEDs that were dramatically more efficient than their...
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  • voice actress Isamu Akasaki (赤崎 勇, 1929–2021), Japanese scientist Katsuhisa Akasaki (born 1974), Japanese mixed martial artist Shuhei Akasaki (赤﨑 秀平, born...
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    of the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Together with Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano, Nakamura received the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics...
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  • in hiragana or katakana. Isamu Akasaki (赤崎 勇, 1929–2021), Japanese scientist Isamu Chō (長 勇, 1895–1945), Japanese general Isamu Fujisawa (藤澤 勇, born 1987)...
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    than five cents. In the early 1990s, Shuji Nakamura, Hiroshi Amano and Isamu Akasaki invented blue light-emitting diodes that were dramatically more efficient...
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    demonstrated by Shuji Nakamura of Nichia Corporation. In parallel, Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano of Nagoya University were working on a new development...
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  • Hiroshi Iwai 2019 David J. Lockwood 2015 Yue Kuo 2005 Dennis Hess 1999 Isamu Akasaki 1995 Wayne L. Worrell 1993 Bruce E. Deal 1987 Alfred Y. Cho 1985 Jerry...
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    Tanegashima Airport Tokunoshima Airport Yakushima Airport Yoron Airport Isamu Akasaki, physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate Hajime Chitose...
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    awarded in 2006, and a Nobel Prize for Physics along with Professor Isamu Akasaki, and Hiroshi Amano in 2014 for this invention. The gain medium defects...
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    Suzuki, Chemistry 2012 – Shinya Yamanaka, Physiology or Medicine 2014 – Isamu Akasaki, Physics 2014 – Hiroshi Amano, Physics 2014 – Shuji Nakamura, Physics...
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    Chemical Weapons Eugene F. Fama; Lars Peter Hansen; Robert J. Shiller 2014 Isamu Akasaki; Hiroshi Amano; Shuji Nakamura Eric Betzig; Stefan Hell; William Moerner...
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  • Medicine, 2015 Shuji Nakamura*, Physics, 2014 Hiroshi Amano, Physics, 2014 Isamu Akasaki, Physics, 2014 Shinya Yamanaka, Physiology or Medicine, 2012 Akira Suzuki...
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    Maskawa, Physics, 2008 Shinya Yamanaka, Physiology or Medicine, 2012 Isamu Akasaki, Physics, 2014 Tasuku Honjo, Physiology or Medicine, 2018 Akira Yoshino...
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  • devices to produce high performance LEDs. Shuji Nakamura (USA) and Isamu Akasaki (Japan) for their development of blue and white LEDs. On 8 December...
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    Patrick Modiano Peace – Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai Physics – Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura Physiology or Medicine – John O'Keefe...
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  • excluded from the 2013 Prize. The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura for the blue light-emitting diode...
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  • the first efficient blue laser (blue LED). Nakamura invented it with Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano, for which the three of them were awarded the 2014...
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    Chiran Samurai District Chiran Samurai District Chinatsu Akasaki - voice actress Isamu Akasaki - Engineer, 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics winner Groups of...
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  • Awardee(s) Isamu Akasaki (1929–2021) Japanese "for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white...
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    Pighini, Mohamed Atalla, Monsanto – LED lamp (1968) Shuji Nakamura, Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano – blue LED (1992) Technology portal Energy portal Banning...
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    with his former students M. George Craford and Russell D. Dupuis, and Isamu Akasaki and Shuji Nakamura, inventors of the Blue LED. Holonyak and his wife...
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  • Oldenburg, Swedish-born American sculptor (Clothespin) (d. 2022) January 30 Isamu Akasaki, Japanese physicist and Nobel laureate (d. 2021) Jacqueline van Maarsen...
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  • Pawan Sinha Scientist professor Malala Yousafzai Activist Pakistan 2015 Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji Nakamura Physicist engineer inventor Japan...
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    LED was demonstrated by Shuji Nakamura of Nichia Corporation in 1994. Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Nakamura were later awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize...
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    (jointly with British developmental biologist John B. Gurdon) KobeU 2014 Isamu Akasaki (1929 – 2021) Physics "for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting...
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  • 2008: Dov Frohman-Bentchkowsky 2009: Tingye Li 2010: Ray Dolby 2011: Isamu Akasaki 2012: Michael Francis Tompsett 2013: Ivan P. Kaminow [ar; de; pt] 2014:...
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  • University Peter Agre Chemistry 2003 Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Isamu Akasaki Physics 2014 Meijo University Nagoya University George Akerlof Economics...
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    Preceded by Serge Haroche David J. Wineland Nobel Prize in Physics laureate 2013 With: François Englert Succeeded by Isamu Akasaki Hiroshi Amano Shuji Nakamura...
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