The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for Akasaki, Amano and Nakamura – La Vanguardia

Barcelona. (Writing / Agencies) .- The Isamu Researchers Akasaki , Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura have won the Nobel Prize in Physics 2014 , as reported by the Swedish Academy from Stockholm.

University professors have been awarded for his “invention of efficient blue light emitting diode, which has enabled bright white light sources and save energy “, as announced on Tuesday the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

This discovery is part of” the spirit of Alfred Nobel “to make inventions that generate a great benefit to mankind, the committee argued .The LED he said, is “a new light to illuminate the world”, more efficient and environmentally friendly by saving energy, reports EFE.

Isamu Akasaki born in 1929 in Chiran, Japan, and his Ph.D. in 1964 from the University of Nagoya; is Professor of Meijo University and Professor Emeritus of Nagoya University Nagoya.Hiroshi Amano was born in 1960 in Hamamatsu, Japan, and his Ph.D. in 1989 also from the University of Nagoya, where he is Professor.

Shuji Nakamura was born in 1954 in Ikata, Japan, and his Ph.D. in 1994 from the University of Tokushima. US citizen, serves as a professor at the University of California.

The trio of winners happens on the payroll of the prestigious Belgian scientist François Englert and British Peter Higgs for having postulated subatomic particle known as the Higgs boson.

This edition of the Nobel began yesterday with the award of Medicine American John O’Keefe and May-Britt Moser Norwegian Edvard I. Moser and for his discovery of ” cells constituting the positioning system of the brain. “

the committee to publicize the name of the winners, the winners have discovered As reported” internal GPS “in the brain that allows orientation in espacio.Mañana will release the names of the winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Literature on Thursday, on Friday the Peace and Economics on Monday.

Each prize is worth 8 million Swedish kronor (879,000 euros, $ 1.1 million) Nobel .The delivery will take place, as tradition, on December 10, the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel in Oslo for the Peace Prize and Stockholm for Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Literature and Economics.

The announcement of the prestigious award comes after yesterday the winners of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Medicine, awarded to American John O’Keefe were known and May-Britt Moser Norwegian Edvard Moser and by “the discovery of a positioning system, an ‘internal’ GPS in the brain that enables us to orient ourselves in space.”

This week will be announced on other winners Nobel Prizes 2014 : The Wednesday delivery Chemistry, Literature on Thursday and Friday the Peace

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