# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shuji-nakamura
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:55:32.462Z

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name: "Shuji Nakamura"
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description: "Shuji Nakamura is a Japanese–American electronics engineer and co-inventor of the blue LED, a major breakthrough in lighting technology. For this achievement, Nakamura, together with Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2014."
tagline: "Japanese doctor of Engineering (1954-), inventor of the blue LED, 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics"
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category:
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birthDate: "1954-05-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump