The inventors of blue LED lights are the Nobel Prize … – RTVE

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The invention of a technology that “carry in your pocket,” diodes that emit blue light has been the one that has earned the Japanese researchers Isamu Akasaki Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura receive the Nobel Prize in Physics 2014 .

As highlighted in Oslo one of the spokesmen of the Karolinska Institute, the organization responsible for distributing the Nobel Prizes, have chosen this year to reward an invention to be useful .

Another spokesperson stressed that the LED lights have replaced all previous technologies, are found in many devices we use today from the flash of the cameras until screens of smartphones or traffic signals.

Since 1901 have been delivered 107 Nobel Prizes in Physics 196 people . has been Only two women in the history of the Nobel awards in the category of Physics, Marie Curie in 1903, also got the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1911 and Maria Goeppert-Mayer in 1963.

A researcher in the field of conductivity, American John Bardeen has earned this award twice while was delivered individually to 47 researchers.

Currently the prize is worth eight million Swedish kronor, equivalent to a 880,000 euros .