The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics
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The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics
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#3btw, Nobel priZe
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#4btw, Nobel priZe
Did someone call it a priSe?
It was only a prise when Obama got the Nobel Peace one.
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#5An amazing choice of something that is used daily, which unlike many Nobel price level physics, everybody can relate to. Generations of physics students will be raised by this particular choice.
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#8Shuji Nakamura originally received only $200 from Nichia for the invention. He later received an $8.1M settlement.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/12/business/worldbusiness/12l...
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#9An amazing choice of something that is used daily, which unlike many Nobel price level physics, everybody can relate to. Generations of physics students will be raised by this particular choice.
I'm still on the hedge about it. Yes, it's more relate-able and inspiring, but it isn't really a contribution to physics as much as engineering. If they had been given the prize for their underlying work on semiconductors, that would have been a lot more valid.
While I'm happy for them, and am in no way qualified to question the Nobel committee, it just doesn't strike me as an "outstanding contribution to the field of physics".
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#10Shuji Nakamura was also previously awarded the Finnish Millennium Technology Prize for his work on blue LEDs.