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Blue LED pioneer Nakamura becomes UCSB’s sixth Nobel laureate
By Erika Martin / Tuesday, October 7th, 2014 / South Coast, Technology, Top Stories / Comments Off on Blue LED pioneer Nakamura becomes UCSB’s sixth Nobel laureate
Click here for the Business Times’ updated coverage. UC Santa Barbara professor Shuji Nakamura and two scientists based in Japan, Hiroshi Amano and Isamu Akasaki, were chosen as recipients of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics. The committee selected the team for its invention of the blue light-emitting diode, or LED, which allows white light to Read More →