Nobel laureate Shuji Nakamura, inventor of the blue LED, now pursues nuclear fusion for limitless energy
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Wayne Drash
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Shuji Nakamura, Nobel Prize-winning inventor of the blue LED — a breakthrough that revolutionized lighting, displays, and electronics worldwide — is now pursuing an ambitious new goal: building a nuclear fusion power plant to provide limitless clean energy. The article explores his journey from the LED breakthrough to his current work on fusion energy, highlighting his relentless engineering approach and vision for solving the world's energy challenges.
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· 3 pulledShuji Nakamura already transformed the world once. His invention of blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) changed everything about our daily lives.
Computers, phones, big screens, traffic lights and electronic billboards light up because of his invention.
Nakamura earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2014, along with two other Japanese scientists, Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano, for their contributions to his LED breakthrough.
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