Category: People & Awards
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Things No one tells about the Nobel Prizes
“The story of Nobel Prize is like a tragedy, where the Hero losses after winning it all” The announcement for the 2014 Nobel Prize winners was made recently. The prefix ‘Nobel laureate’ gives an impression about the great achievement and contributions of the person or organization to the human society. However, the story of the…
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The inventors of blue LED lights just won the Nobel Prize. Here’s why.
The 2014 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura — three scientists who helped develop blue light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, in the early 1990s. Take it this way. The white light is made up of three colors – Red, Yellow & Blue – called the primary colours. When the three…
