Apart from adorning blinged-out Mazdas and as bordering for oversized TVs in modern homes, blue LEDs serve a very important function and their inventors were worthy recipients of the recently announced Nobel Prize for Physics, and the $1.1 million paycheck that comes with it. Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano of Nagoya University in Japan and … Continue reading How Blue LED Lights Changed the World and Won a Nobel Prize