3 questions for Shuji Nakamura, inventor of the LED
May 12th, 2009 link to (permalink)
Red LEDs had been around since the 1920s, but sixty years later folks were still trying to figure out how to get the green and the blue necessary to complete the spectrum. Enter Shuji Nakamura, who was researching gallium nitride at a chemical manufacturing company in Tokyo.
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