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Isamu Akasaki
Isamu Akasaki · 大臣官房人事課, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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Isamu Akasaki

1929 – 2021 · aged 92

Japanese engineer (1929-2021)

Born
30 Jan 1929 · Chiran
Died
1 Apr 2021 · Nagoya
Part ofJapan230 BCE – todayEmpire of Japan1864 – 1947

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 106 years
  1. 30 Jan 1929BornBorn in Chiran
  2. 1996AwardMedal with Purple Ribbon
  3. 1998AwardIEEE Jack A. Morton Award
  4. 1999AwardHonorary doctorate from University of Montpellier-II
  5. 1999AwardGordon E. Moore Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Solid State Science and Technology
  6. 2000AwardAsahi Prize
  7. 2002AwardOrder of the Rising Sun, 3rd class
  8. 2004AwardPerson of Cultural Merit
  9. 2009AwardKyoto Prize in Advanced Technology
  10. 2011AwardEdison Medal
  11. 2011AwardOrder of Culture
  12. 2014AwardImperial Prize of Japan Academy
  13. 2014AwardNobel Prize in Physics
  14. 1 Apr 2021DiedDied in Nagoya

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1929 – 2021).

  1. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  2. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  3. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  4. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  5. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1938Munich Agreement
  7. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  8. 1939 – 1945World War II
  9. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  10. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  11. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  12. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  13. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  14. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  15. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  16. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  18. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  19. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  21. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  22. 1956Suez Crisis
  23. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  25. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  27. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  29. 1968Prague Spring
  30. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  31. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  32. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  33. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  35. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  36. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  37. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  38. 1985Schengen Agreement
  39. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  40. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall

Biography

Isamu Akasaki (赤崎 勇, Akasaki Isamu; January 30, 1929 – April 1, 2021) was a Japanese materials scientist specializing in the field of semiconductor technology. He is best known for co-inventing the bright gallium nitride (GaN) p–n junction blue LED in 1989 and subsequently the high-brightness GaN blue LED as well.

Akasaki was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura, "for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources."

Text from the Wikipedia article Isamu Akasaki, CC BY-SA 4.0

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