Brains! Physicists Bag Nobel Prize For LED Light Bulbs

Wednesday, 8 October 2014

Brains! Physicists Bag Nobel Prize For LED Light Bulbs

Three scientists, an American and two Japanese, won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday. They were awarded the prestigious prize for inventing a new energy-efficient and environment-friendly light source, leading to the creation of modern LED light bulbs.

According to Reuters, Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano of Japan and Japanese-born U.S. citizen Shuji Nakamura bagged the prize for inventing the blue light-emitting diode (LED), the “missing piece that now allows manufacturers to produce white-light lamps.”

The development of such lamps is “changing the way homes and workplaces are lit, offering a longer-lasting and more efficient alternative to the incandescent bulbs pioneered by Joseph Swan and Thomas Edison at the end of the 19th century.”