Meijo University Professor Isamu Akasaki Shares Nobel Prize For Physics

NAGOYA, JAPAN - OCTOBER 08: Isamu Akasaki celebrates his Nobel prize at Meijo University on October 8, 2014 in Nagoya, Japan. Professor Akasaki invented the efficient blue light-emitting diodes, which enabled brigh and energy-saving white light sources with Shuji Nakamura of University of California, Santa Barbara, and Hiroshi Amano of Nagoya University. (Photo by Kaz Photography/Getty Images)