Published “Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis” in The Lancet — cited 14,025 times.
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Shuji Nakamura
Shuji Nakamura is a Japanese–American electronics engineer and co-inventor of the blue LED, a major breakthrough in lighting technology. For this achievement, Nakamura, together with Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2014.
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science · Japanese–American electronics engineer (born 1954) · physicist · engineer · inventor · professor · also Shuji Nakamura, Nakamura
Born 22 May 1954 · Q730065
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2021· 1 entry
Awarded Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (2021).
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2020· 1 entry
Awarded NAS Award for the Industrial Application of Science (2020).
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2019· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of Toulouse-III University (2019).
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2018· 1 entry
Published “Review of Particle Physics” in Physical Review D — cited 5,730 times.
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2017· 1 entry
Published “Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults” in The Lancet — cited 5,591 times.
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2015· 3 entries
Awarded Global Energy Prize (2015).
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Awarded Charles Stark Draper Prize (2015).
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Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2015).
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2014· 4 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources.
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Awarded Person of Cultural Merit (2014).
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Awarded Order of Culture (2014).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (2014).
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2013· 1 entry
Published “Signatures of mutational processes in human cancer” in Nature — cited 8,822 times.
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2012· 2 entries
Published “Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,801 times.
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Published “Review of Particle Physics” in Physical Review D — cited 5,100 times.
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2010· 2 entries
Awarded IET Kelvin Lecture (2010).
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Published “Review of Particle Physics” in Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics — cited 4,636 times.
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded Harvey Prize (2009).
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2008· 2 entries
Awarded Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research (2008).
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Nakamura, along with fellow UCSB professors Dr
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2006· 2 entries
Awarded Millennium Technology Prize (2006).
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Published “Novel methods improve prediction of species’ distributions from occurrence data” in Ecography — cited 7,233 times.
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2004· 1 entry
Published “Lead-free piezoceramics” in Nature — cited 5,184 times.
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2003· 1 entry
Published “The International HapMap Project” in Nature — cited 4,925 times.
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2002· 3 entries
Awarded Clarivate Citation Laureates (2002).
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Won Benjamin Franklin Medal (2002).
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Awarded IEEE Quantum Electronics Award (2002).
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2001· 2 entries
Awarded Nick Holonyak Jr. Award (2001).
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Nakamura sued his former employer Nichia over his bonus for the discovery as a part of a series of lawsuits between Nichia and Nakamura with Nichia's US competitor Cree Inc
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2000· 3 entries
Awarded Zeiss Research Award (2000).
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Awarded Asahi Prize (2000).
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To jointly sue Nichia at the expense of Cree and Nakamura received stock options from Cree
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1999· 1 entry
To join the faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara at the personal invitation of the university's chancellor, Henry T
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded IEEE Jack A. Morton Award (1998).
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1997· 1 entry
Won MRS Medal Award (1997).
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Nishina Memorial Prize (1996).
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1994· 1 entry
Nakamura was conferred a D
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1993· 1 entry
To ¥80 billion (≈US$800 million) by 2001, 60 percent of which was accounted for by sales of blue LED products
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1979· 1 entry
After which he joined the Nichia Corporation, also based in Tokushima
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1954· 1 entry
Born 1954-05-22.
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