Nobel Prize in Physics 2014
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 Committee’s Deliberation…patterns spoke to two kinds of contribution. The committee had to decide whether both kinds were prize-worthy. The decade-long path to the Nobel Prize in Physics 2014 was shaped by this tension. The committee could not ignore Nakamura’s achievement. The blue LED had transformed the lighting industry. It h…