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Birth Name:

Shuji Nakamura

Male

Birth Date:

Sat, May 22, 1954

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Ikata, Ehime, Japan

Age:

70

Zodiac Sign:

Gemini

Astrology Data:

Sun

0°

Gem

29'

About Shuji Nakamura

Shuji Nakamura (中村 修二, Nakamura Shūji, born May 22, 1954) FREng is a Japanese-born American electronic engineer and prolific inventor specializing in the field of semiconductor technology, professor at the Materials Department of the College of Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and is regarded as the inventor of the blue LED, a major breakthrough in lighting technology. Together with Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano, he is one of the three recipients of 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". In 2015, his input into commercialization and development of energy-efficient white LED lighting technology was recognized by the Global Energy Prize.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• Professor Nakamura's home page at UCSB

• The Solid State Lighting and Energy Center at UCSB

• Shuji Nakamura Wins $188.7 Million Settlement from Former Employer Nichia for Blue Spectrum Breakthrough Technology

• New York Times article on Nakamura's settlement with Nichia

• Shuji Nakamura wins the 2006 Millennium Technology Prize

• Nichia's Shuji Nakamura: Dream of the Blue Laser Diode

• 2008 Prince of Asturias Award For Technical and Scientific Research[permanent dead link]

• Harvey Prize

• Shuji Nakamura SPIE Photonics West plenary presentation: Future and present technologies of solid state lighting

• Shuji Nakamura on Nobelprize.org

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Shuji Nakamura: Sun 0 Gemini, Moon 18 Capricorn, Mercury 15 Gemini, Venus 28 Gemini, Mars 8 Capricorn, Jupiter 29 Gemini, Saturn 4 Scorpio, Uranus 20 Cancer, Neptune 23 Libra, Pluto 22 Leo, Sun Semi Sextile Jupiter, Venus Conjunct Jupiter, Venus Trine Neptune, Mars Sesquiquadrate Pluto, Jupiter Trine Saturn, Uranus Square Neptune, Neptune Sextile Pluto

Categories related to Shuji Nakamura: Living people, University of California, May 22 births, 1954 births, Santa Barbara faculty, 21st-century American engineers, Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering, American inventors, American Nobel laureates, Japanese inventors, Japanese emigrants to the United States, 20th-century American engineers, Japanese academics, Asia Game Changer Award winners, Draper Prize winners, American electronics engineers, American scientists of Japanese descent, Japanese electronics engineers, Japanese Nobel laureates, Light-emitting diode pioneers, People from Ehime Prefecture, Tokushima University alumni