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Shuji Nakamura
Engineer

Shuji Nakamura

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Developing efficient blue LEDs used in modern lighting.

Blue LED · White lighting

Born
22 May 1954
Birthplace
Ikata

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Shuji Nakamura

Shuji Nakamura is a Japanese-American engineer who shared the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics with Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano.

Early life

Education

Studied electronic engineering at the University of Tokushima, completing a master’s degree in 1979.

Career

  1. 1979

    Nichia

    Joined the Japanese company.

  2. 1993

    Bright blue LED

    Developed a commercially practical high-brightness blue device.

  3. 1994

    Doctorate

    Received an engineering doctorate from Tokushima.

  4. 1999

    Santa Barbara

    Joined the University of California.

  5. 2014

    Nobel Prize

    Shared the physics prize for blue LEDs.

Contributions

Blue LED

A breakthrough in gallium-nitride semiconductor lighting.

White lighting

Blue LEDs enabled efficient white-light sources using phosphor conversion.

Beyond research

Family

Is married to Yuki Nakamura.

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