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NAGOYA, JAPAN - OCTOBER 10: Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano show the blue light-emitting diodes in the press conference at Nagoya University on October 10, 2014 in Nagoya, Japan. Professor Amano invented the efficient blue light-emitting diodes, which enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources with Shuji Nakamura of University of California, Santa Barbara, and Isamu Akasaki of Meijyo University (Photo by Kaz Photography/Getty Images)
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NAGOYA, JAPAN - OCTOBER 10: Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano show the blue light-emitting diodes in the press conference at Nagoya University on October 10, 2014 in Nagoya, Japan. Professor Amano invented the efficient blue light-emitting diodes, which enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources with Shuji Nakamura of University of California, Santa Barbara, and Isamu Akasaki of Meijyo University (Photo by Kaz Photography/Getty Images)