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Shuji Nakamura

Japanese doctor of Engineering (1954-), inventor of the blue LED, 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics

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    Born 1954
  • Awards
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Updated 2026-08-04

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.

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Category
Scientists
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Japan
Last updated
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    wikipedia · ar.wikipedia.org
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Born
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