Isamu Akasaki (赤崎 勇 Akasaki Isamu, born January 30, 1929) is 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.
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1929
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1 April 2021 (aged 91)
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