Isamu Akasaki, 92, dies; Nobel winner lit up the world with LEDs

Physicist Isamu Akasaki shared the Nobel Prize with two others for a breakthrough in creating blue light-emitting diodes, succeeding “where everyone else had failed.” LEDs transformed the way the world is illuminated. Akasaki has died at 92.

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