Isamu Akasaki

Isamu Akasaki (赤崎 勇, Akasaki Isamu, born January 30, 1929; died April 1, 2021) wis a Japanese scientist, specializin in the field o semiconductor technologie an Nobel Prize laureate, best kent for inventin the bricht gallium nitride (GaN) p-n junction blue LED in 1989 an subsequently the heich-brichtness GaN blue LED as well.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Isamu Akasaki
Native name	赤崎 勇
Born	30 Januar 1929(1929-01-30) Chiran, Kawanabe Destrict, Kagoshima Prefectur, Japan
Dee'd	1 Aprile 2021 (aged 92) Nagoya, Japan
Naitionality	Japanese
Alma mater	Kyoto Varsity Nagoya Varsity
Awairds	Asahi Prize (2001) Takeda Award (2002) IEEE Edison Medal (2011) Nobel Prize in Pheesics (2014) Charles Stark Draper Prize (2015)
Scientific career
Fields	Pheesics
Institutions	Meijo Varsity Nagoya Varsity

For this an ither achievements Isamu Akasaki wis awairdit the Kyoto Prize in Advancit Technologie in 2009^[6] an the IEEE Edison Medal in 2011.^[7] He wis awairdit the 2014 Nobel prize in Pheesics an aw, thegither wi Hiroshi Amano an Shuji Nakamura,^[8] "for the invention o efficient blue licht-emittin diodes, which haes enabled bricht an energy-savin white licht sources".