Nobel Prize for blue LED inventors
The 2014 Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded to the three scientists responsible for the invention of blue LEDs.
Professors Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamurs were told the good news at a press conference in Sweden today. They will share prize money of eight million kronor (£0.7m).
"What's fascinating is that a lot of big companies really tried to do this and they failed," said Prize committee chair Professor Per Delsing, of Chalmers University of Technology. "But these guys persisted and they tried and tried again - and eventually they actually succeeded."
