
David C. Hayes
Former Encyclopædia Britannica Editor
Freelance Science Editor, Encyclopædia Britannica.
Primary Contributions (13)

Akasaki Isamu was a Japanese materials scientist who was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics for inventing blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs), paving the way for future innovation. He shared the prize with Japanese materials scientist Amano Hiroshi and Japanese-born American materials scientist…
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