Nobuo Ogawa
Books
- The Impossible Light Gallium Nitride, Corporate Betrayal, and the Invention of Blue Light · Liszt Think
For decades, the electronics industry deemed a bright blue LED physically impossible.
- The Color That Wasn't There…im spend its money on a material the field had abandoned. The decision to support Nakamura’s work came from Nichia’s founder and president, Nobuo Ogawa. Ogawa had built the company from a small operation producing phosphors for the Japanese electronics industry. He understood that Nichia’s…
- A Chemical Company in Tokushima…bishi and Sony, the companies that mattered. They had not hired him. Nichia hired him. The company made chemicals, not research scientists. Nobuo Ogawa had founded Nichia in 1956, naming it after the Japanese word for “sun” and the Chinese word for “center.” The name reflected his ambition.…
- Building the Reactor by Hand…in the same way better-funded researchers had already failed. The calculation was cold, and probably correct. The calculation had convinced Nobuo Ogawa, Nichia’s founder, to fund the project. Ogawa had built his company from nothing, starting with phosphors for cathode-ray tubes and expandi…