Page 1 of Nobel Prize for Blue LED

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2692856/education/nobel-prize-in-physics-a-blue-led-special.html

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Three university researchers, two in Japan and one in the United States, have been awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for their invention in the early 1990s of the blue light-emitting diode (LED), an energy efficient breakthrough in producing longer-lasting white light.
My first DVD player had a blue LED, I think that was as cool as DVD itself at the time.

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There is nothing quite as cool as a blue LED.

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The blue LED on my coffee machine went several years ago. Hard to tell whether the thing is on or not. I think they should return the prize.

Really?
Pretty like but a Nobel Prize?
Nothing else in Physics happened worth a mention in that time?

If it's solving cost and energy consumption for lighting they should have given it to this guy.

Tell you what I'll wrap me desk lamp in Quality Street wrappers. 1.1 million would solve a few problems right now.



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"solving cost and energy consumption for lighting"
Actually it is, one thing that blue LEDs meant is that with the combination of red and green, you could create natural-ish lights, which use a fraction of the power of incandescents and fluorescents, and last a lot longer. LED lightbulbs will be the lighting of the 21st Century... apparently. And then you get the whole OLED TV thing. They've been around for ages, yes, but the implication of an invention is often not realised until years after the fact, hence the award of the prize now.


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I heard on the wireless yesterday about how one of the inventors was working at his company trying to produce the very hard to manufacture crystals that would make the blue light. The company stopped the project because they thought it was too difficult/costly, so he continued working at night in his own time using their facilities. Once he was successful and with the company now raking in the millions thanks to his efforts, they rewarded him with a pay off worth something like £2,500 (may even have been a lot less). 

Fortunately he did go on to sue them and win, earning millions in unpaid royalties.