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Shuji Nakamura

1954 - Today

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Shuji Nakamura (中村 修二, Nakamura Shūji; born May 22, 1954) is a Japanese electronic engineer, co-inventor of the blue LED, a major breakthrough in lighting technology, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2014. Nakamura specializes in the field of semiconductor technology, and he is a professor of materials science at the College of Engineering of the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Together with Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano, Nakamura received 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 the commercialization and development of energy-efficient white LED lighting technology was recognized by the Global Energy Prize. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Shuji Nakamura is the 318th most popular physicist (up from 342nd in 2019), the 307th most popular biography from Japan (up from 401st in 2019) and the 10th most popular Japanese Physicist. Learn more about Shuji Nakamura's academic impact at Rankless.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Shuji Nakamura ranks 318 out of 851. Before him are Christoph Scheiner, Daniel C. Tsui, John Vincent Atanasoff, Steven Chu, Hagen Kleinert, and Pierre Louis Dulong. After him are Félix Savart, John Tyndall, Hélène Langevin-Joliot, Charles Fabry, Alexey Ekimov, and John Stewart Bell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Shuji Nakamura ranks 60. Before him are Filip Vujanović, Robert Kocharyan, Anthony Head, François Fillon, Eric Johnson, and Kathleen Turner. After him are Rene Russo, Aleksander Kwaśniewski, Bernard Hinault, Phil Taylor, Tony Todd, and Sezen Aksu.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shuji Nakamura ranks 307 out of 6,245. Before him are Yoshio Furukawa (1934), Emperor Shōmu (701), Shoko Hamada (1950), Tokugawa Iemochi (1846), Nagayasu Honda (null), and Nobuyuki Abe (1875). After him are Nobuo Matsunaga (1921), Emperor Bidatsu (538), Emperor Sutoku (1119), Masanobu Izumi (1944), Seki Matsunaga (1928), and Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado (1442).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Japan

Among physicists born in Japan, Shuji Nakamura ranks 10. Before him are Yoichiro Nambu (1921), Makoto Kobayashi (1944), Leo Esaki (1925), Toshihide Maskawa (1940), Masatoshi Koshiba (1926), and Syukuro Manabe (1931). After him are Hiroshi Amano (1960), Takaaki Kajita (1959), Yoshio Nishina (1890), Hantaro Nagaoka (1865), Toshiko Yuasa (1909), and Sumio Iijima (1939).

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