This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji Nakamura “for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources”.

• News: Nobel Prize in Physics 2014
  Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji Nakamura were awarded

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• News: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014
  This year’s laureates were John O’Keefe, May-Britt Moser, and Edvard I. Mosel
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