Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji Nakamura for on Tuesday for inventing the blue light-emitting diode (LED), an energy-efficient light source.
"By using blue LEDs, white light can be created in a new way," the Nobel Committee said. "With the advent of LED lamps we now have more long-lasting and more efficient alternatives to older light sources."
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On Monday, John O'Keefe and husband-wife team Edvard and May-Britt Moser split the Nobel Prize in medicine for "their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain."