Winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics – Sight

The Nobel committee announced the names of award winners for physics in 2014 – they have Japanese scientists Isam Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano, representing the Japanese universities, and Shuji Nakamura from the American University of California, awarded for the invention of colored LEDs.

Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano represent Nagoya University in Japan, and Professor Shuji Nakamaru – University of California at Santa Barbara (USA).

«Prize was awarded for the invention of efficient blue LEDs »

On their victory the official website of the Nobel Committee.

Nobel Prize in Physics for 2014 was awarded for the creation of a new light source – blue LEDs. These energy-saving devices have become an alternative to traditional light sources pointed to the Nobel Committee.

«This year’s Nobel Prize winners will be rewarded for having invented a new energy efficient and environmentally friendly source of light – Blue LED (LED). In the spirit of Alfred Nobel Prizes are awarded for inventions that brought the greatest benefit to mankind. Using blue LEDs, white light can shine in a new way. With the advent of LED lamps we now have a longer-term and more effective alternative to old sources of light “- told the Nobel Committee.

It is reported that three distinguished scientists in the early 1990s, learned to create a bright blue light rays from its semiconductor and cause «FUNDA-mental transformation of lighting technology.” Red and green LEDs were discovered long ago, but no blue light, modern LED white lights Lama could not be created.

«Despite considerable efforts, both in the scientific community and in industry, the blue LED remained a problem throughout the three decades. These scientists have succeeded where others have failed, “- added to the committee.

It is also reported that the Akasaka worked with Amano in Nagoya University, while Nakamura worked at Nichia Chemicals – a small company in Tokushima , then went to an American university. “LED lamp has great potential to improve the quality of life for more chem1,5 billion people around the world. Due to low power consumption, it can be fed even by a cheap local solar energy. The invention of blue LED was only about twenty years ago, but it has contributed to the creation of white light in a completely new form for the benefit of all of us “, – summarized in the Nobel Committee.

We add that, according to the rules, the names submitted for the award candidates can be found only in 50 years. Therefore, traditionally the names of possible candidates for the award called scientific sections of various publications.

So, authoritative Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter put this year on three physicists who discovered a new topological insulator. In 2005, working at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (USA) researchers Charles Kane and Sucheng Jung theorized the existence of new matter, and in 2007, Laurens Molenkamp of the University of Wurzburg in Germany proved its existence. Topological insulators can be used, for example, in the creation of quantum computers.

According to the forecast media company Thomson Reuters, the award would give a researcher working in the United States Peydonu Young of the University of California at Berkeley for his contribution in the creation of the first nanofiber nanolaser etc.

current winners in the list was not.

The awards ceremony is traditionally held in Stockholm on December 10 – on the day of the death of the founder of the Nobel Prize, the Swedish entrepreneur and inventor Alfred Nobel (1833 – 1896).

Recall, on Wednesday received the first Nobel Prize 2014. Traditionally, it awarded in the category “Medicine and Physiology.” Winners were the three scientists: Briton John O’Keefe and his wife May-Britt and Edvard Moser of Norway. They were awarded for the discovery of cells that “make positional system in the brain».