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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-American electronic engineer and inventor of the blue LED, a major breakthrough in lighting technology. 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". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shuji Nakamura has received more than 746,852 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Shuji Nakamura is the 341st most popular physicist (down from 339th in 2019), the 401st most popular biography from Japan (up from 455th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Japanese Physicist.

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  • 4.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Shuji Nakamura ranks 341 out of 851. Before him are Frank Wilczek, Ferenc Krausz, Frank Oppenheimer, Philip Abelson, John Stewart Bell, and John Theophilus Desaguliers. After him are Hans Kramers, Jean Charles Athanase Peltier, Jean-Charles de Borda, Franz Ernst Neumann, Walter A. Shewhart, and Leopold Infeld.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Shuji Nakamura ranks 68. Before him are Phil Rudd, Riccardo Patrese, François Fillon, Johnny Logan, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Ilan Ramon. After him are Andrei Karlov, Rashad al-Alimi, Chris Evert, Katsuhiro Otomo, Roberto Dinamite, and Oscar.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shuji Nakamura ranks 401 out of 6,245. Before him are Toru Takemitsu (1930), Tokugawa Ienari (1773), Fusajiro Yamauchi (1859), Emperor Juntoku (1197), Ono no Komachi (825), and Yodo-dono (1569). After him are Kunisada (1786), Yoshimatsu Oyama (null), Daisaku Ikeda (1928), Tetsu Katayama (1887), Saizo Saito (1908), and Seki Takakazu (1642).

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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), Masatoshi Koshiba (1926), Syukuro Manabe (1931), Leo Esaki (1925), and Toshihide Maskawa (1940). After him are Yoshio Nishina (1890), Hiroshi Amano (1960), Takaaki Kajita (1959), Hantaro Nagaoka (1865), Toshiko Yuasa (1909), and Sumio Iijima (1939).

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