Isamu Akasaki

Isamu Akasaki

Isamu Akasaki (赤﨑 勇, Akasaki Isamu, January 30, 1929 – April 1, 2021) was a Japanese engineer and physicist, specializing in the field of semiconductor technology and Nobel Prize laureate, best known for inventing the bright gallium nitride (GaN) p-n junction blue LED in 1989 and subsequently the high-brightness GaN blue LED as well. For this and other achievements, Akasaki was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology in 2009, and the IEEE Edison Medal in 2011. He was also awarded the 2014 Nobel prize in Physics, together with Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura, "for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes, which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources". In 2021, Akasaki, along with Shuji Nakamura, Nick Holonyak, M. George Craford and Russell D. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Isamu Akasaki has received more than 251,971 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Isamu Akasaki is the 196th most popular physicist (up from 203rd in 2019), the 124th most popular biography from Japan (down from 119th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Physicist.

Amu Akasaki is most famous for being the inventor of the blue LED.