Baku. Javid Zeynalli – APA. Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano at Nagoya University, Japan and Shuji Nakamura of the University of California at Santa Barbara - for the invention of blue light-emitting diodes, a new energy efficient and environment-friendly light source.
Isamu Akasaki was born in 1929 in Japan, Hiroshi Amano in 1960 and Shuji Nakamura in 1954.