The Akasaki, Amano and Nakamura professors, Nobel prizes … – ecodiario

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Isamu Akasaki Japanese, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura, the latter born American, have been honored today with the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing the LED light emitting diode, said the Royal Academy of Sciences in Sweden.

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This discovery is part of “the spirit of Alfred Nobel” to make inventions generating a great benefit to mankind, the committee argued. The LED, he stressed, is “a new light to illuminate the world”, more efficient and environmentally friendly by saving energy.

Isamu Akasaki was born in 1929 in Chiran, Japan, and his Ph.D. in 1964 Nagoya University; is Professor of Meijo University Nagoya and professor emeritus at the University of Nagoya.

Hiroshi Amano was born in 1960 in Hamamatsu, Japan, and his Ph.D. in 1989 also from the University of Nagoya, where he is Professor.

Shuji Nakamura was born in 1954 in Ikata, Japan, and his Ph.D. in 1994 from the University of Tokushima. US citizen, serves as a professor at the University of California.

The trio of winners happens on the payroll of the prestigious Belgian scientist François Englert and British Peter Higgs for having postulated the existence of subatomic particle called the Higgs boson.

This edition of the Nobel began yesterday with the award of Medicine American John O’Keefe and May-Britt Moser Norwegian Edvard and I . Moser for his discovery of “the cells constituting the positioning system of the brain.” As reported by the committee to publicize the name of the winners, the winners have discovered the “internal GPS” in the brain that enables orientation in space.

Tomorrow we will announce the names of the winners Nobel Chemistry, Literature on Thursday, on Friday the Peace and Economics on Monday.

Each prize is worth 8 million kronor (879,000 euros, 1.1 million) .

The delivery of the Nobel will be held, as tradition, on December 10, the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel in Oslo for Peace Prize ., and Stockholm for Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Literature and Economics

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