The Nobel Prize in Physics winners were announced: Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji Nakamura.
The trio will receive the prize for inventing the energy-efficient, long-lasting blue LED light bulb. Along with the prestigious award, the scientists will also receive just over a million dollars.
The invention, which was defined as "a new light source that illuminates the world, economically, efficiently and in a manner that is friendly to the world," would have "brought great joy to the initiator of the Nobel Prize, Alfred Nobel," explained selection committee member Professor Ole Ingens.
Among the reasons for the win was: "The LED bulbs, as we know them, have a much longer life than the bulbs we have used to date. The invention is only 20 years old, but it has already contributed to creating white light in a completely new way, for the benefit of all of us."
The members of the Academy of Sciences also stated: "LED light holds tremendous promise for improving the standard of living of more than a billion and a half people around the world who do not have access to electricity grids, as it can be operated with small amounts of solar power.".
The Nobel Prize in Physics, considered particularly prestigious, was awarded last year to Peter Higgs and François Englert, creators of the theory of the "God particle." The discoveries about the origin of mass in elementary particles, the "Higgs boson particle," of the years shocked the world at the time.
So far, the winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology have been announced - John O'Keefe and the Norwegian couple May-Britt and Edward Moser, for the discovery of the cells in the brain that help us navigate in space, and tomorrow the winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry will be announced.
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