Isamu Akasaki

Awards

1. 2009

   Kyoto Prize — Advanced Technology

   CS

   Pioneering Work on Gallium Nitride p-n Junctions and Related Contributions to the Development of Blue Light Emitting Devices.

2. 2014

   Nobel Prize — Physics

   Physics

   for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources