Shuji Nakamura
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physics — 2014for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources
- Citizenship
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Japan
United States
- Languages
- Japanese
- date of birth
- 5/22/1954
- place of birth
- Ikata
- Age
- 72 years
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- employer
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- University of California, Santa Barbara
- start time: 1999
- Ehime University
- Nichia
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- educated at
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- University of Tokushima
- Nagoya University
- Ehime Prefectural Oshu High School
- member of
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- National Academy of Engineering
- Polish Academy of Sciences
- field of work
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- physics
- occupation
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- engineer
- inventor
- professor
- physicist
- notable work
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- blue light-emitting diode