THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
April 3, 2021 at 14:59 JST
Isamu Akasaki, left, and Hiroshi Amano attend a news conference in October 2014 after the announcement they had won the Nobel Prize in Physics. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Japanese physicist Isamu Akasaki, co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2014 for the development and application of blue light-emitting diodes, died April 1 of pneumonia. He was 92. [Read More]
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