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Photo: A. Mahmoud. Isamu Akasaki. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2014. Born: 30 January 1929, Chiran, Japan. Died: 1 April 2021, Nagoya, Japan. Affiliation at the time of the award: Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan; Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan. Prize motivation: “for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled ...

Akasaki Isamu, (born January 30, 1929, Chiran, Japan—died April 1, 2021, Nagoya), Japanese materials scientist who was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics for inventing blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs), paving the way for future innovation.

Isamu Akasaki, a long-standing professor at Meijo University in Nagoya, Japan, passed away on the morning of 1 April 2021. It is with great regret that we announce the passing of this great...

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2014 was awarded jointly to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura "for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources"

Nature Physics - The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura "for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has...

Physicist Isamu Akasaki, a co-winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in physics for inventing the world’s first efficient blue light-emitting diodes, has died, Meijo University said Friday. He was 92.

Topics. Crystallization, Wireless communications, Epitaxy, Fluorescent materials, Luminescence, Light emitting diodes, Obituaries. Isamu Akasaki, a 2014 Nobel laureate in physics who brought highly efficient general lighting for the 21st century to people all over the world, passed away on 1 April 2021 in Nagoya, Japan, at age 92.

The Japanese semiconductor pioneer Isamu Akasaki has died at the age of 92. His work in the late 1980s and early 1990s led to the development of blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs), which soon found a wide range of applications from low-energy light bulbs and mobile-phone displays to televisions.