Shuji Nakamura

Quick Facts

Full Name	Shuji Nakamura
Occupation	Physicist
Date Of Birth	May 22, 1954(1954-05-22)
Age	70
Birthplace	Ikata
Country	Japan
Birth City	Ehime Prefecture
Horoscope	Taurus

Shuji Nakamura Biography

Shuji Nakamura is one of the most popular and richest Physicist who was born on May 22, 1954 in Ikata, Ehime Prefecture, Japan. Japanese scientist, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2014. Nobel Prize in Physics for the development of blue light emitting diodes which are used in making of Blu-Ray discs. He has been an instructor within the Materials Department of the College of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Similar to American scientist Clifford Sull He was awarded his Nobel Prize in Physics.

Shuji Nakamura (中村 修二 , Nakamura Shūji, born May 22, 1954) FREng is a Japanese-born American electronic engineer and prolific inventor specializing in the field of semiconductor technology, professor at the Materials Department of the College of Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and is regarded as the inventor of the blue LED, a major breakthrough in lighting technology. Together with Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano, he is one of the three recipients of the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics “for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes, which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources”. In 2015, his input into commercialization and development of energy-efficient white LED lighting technology was recognized by the Global Energy Prize.

Previously, J. I. Pankove and co-workers at RCA put in considerable effort, but did not manage to make a marketable GaN LED in the 1960s. The principal problem was the difficulty of making strongly p-type GaN. Nakamura drew on the work of another Japanese group led by Professor Isamu Akasaki, who published their method to make strongly p-type GaN by electron-beam irradiation of magnesium-doped GaN. However, this method was not suitable for mass production and its physics were not well understood. Nakamura managed to develop a thermal annealing method which was much more suitable for mass production. In addition, he and his co-workers worked out the physics and pointed out the culprit was hydrogen, which passivated acceptors in GaN.

He has three children with the names of Hitomi, Arisa and Fumie.

Shuji Nakamura Net Worth

Shuji Nakamura is one of the richest Physicist from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Shuji Nakamura 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He obtained an master of Engineering degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Tokushima.

He was given a bonus of approximately $9 million by Nichia Corporation. Nichia Corporation for his patents this was the largest bonus ever offered by an Japanese company in the past.

At the time, many considered creating a GaN LED too difficult to produce; therefore Nakamura was fortunate that the founder of Nichia, Nobuo Ogawa (1912–2002), was initially willing to support his GaN project. However the company eventually ordered him to suspend work on GaN, claiming it was consuming too much time and money. Nakamura continued to develop the blue LED on his own and in 1993 succeeded in making the device.

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Shuji Ranked on the list of most popular Physicist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Shuji Nakamura celebrates birthday on May 22 of every year.

What is Shuji Nakamura famous for?

Shuji Nakamura, (born May 22, 1954, Ehime, Japan), Japanese-born American materials scientist who was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs). He shared the prize with Japanese materials scientists Akasaki Isamu and Amano Hiroshi.

Who invented the blue LED light?

TOKYO (Kyodo) — Japanese physicist Isamu Akasaki, a co-winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in physics for inventing the world’s first efficient blue light- emitting diodes, has died, Meijo University said Friday. He was 92.

Is Shuji Nakamura married?

The Nobel Prize on Twitter: “ Yuki Nakamura , Spouse of Physics Laureate Shuji Nakamura, and Physics Laureate Hiroshi Amano #nobelprize2014 http://t.co/YIfK59c0pg” / Twitter.

Who won the Nobel Prize LED?

That year, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics to three scientists— Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji Nakamura —“for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources.” Never before had researchers working so …

Who invented blue laser?

In 1992 Japanese inventor Shuji Nakamura invented the first efficient blue LED, and four years later, the first blue laser.