The 2014 Nobel laureate, Isamu Akasaki, sadly passed away in April at the age of 92. He was highly regarded for his work on the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes and research into new semiconductor materials.
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Koide, Y. Isamu Akasaki in memoriam. Nat. Photon. 15, 551–552 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-021-00852-5
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