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Hiroshi Amano
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Hiroshi Amano is a Japanese physicist and engineer born in 1960 who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2014 for his scientific contributions. His work has been recognized as important enough to receive one of the world's most prestigious awards in the field of physics.
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physics2014
“for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources”
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- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Place of birth
- Hamamatsu
- Occupation
- engineer
- Employer
- Meijo University
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Doctoral advisor
- Isamu Akasaki
- Student of
- Isamu Akasaki
- Field of work
- physicist
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- Hiroshi Amano.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1960-09-11
- name in kana
- あまの ひろし
- name in native language
- 天野浩
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- Hiroshi Amano
- interested in
- physics
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Encyclopedic overview
Hiroshi Amano (Japanese: 天野 浩, romanized: Amano Hiroshi; born September 11, 1960) is a Japanese electronics engineer specializing in the field of semiconductor technology. He is a co-inventor of the blue LED, for which he was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Isamu Akasaki and Shuji Nakamura.
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