Blue Light Special: 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics

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🗓️ 7 October 2014

⏱️ 13 minutes

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The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura for the invention of efficient blue light–emitting diodes, which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources. The winning work is explained by physics Nobel Committee members Per Delsing and Olle Inganäs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:05.6	You're telling me, he outgrew his bike. We sold it, on eBay.
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0:12.3	Free to sell?
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0:16.8	You sold my guitar?
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0:22.1	When it's this easy to sell for free, you can't help but say when it's eBay.
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0:30.1	Welcome to this second episode of our special 2014 Nobel Prize editions of Science Talk,
0:36.3	the podcast of Scientific American. I'm Steve Merski. Today, the podcast of Scientific American.
0:38.5	I'm Steve Merski.
0:40.0	Today, the physics prize.
0:41.8	This year's prize is about light.
0:44.7	Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences permanent secretary, Stefan Normark.
0:49.0	The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics to Professor
0:56.8	Isamo, Akasak at May University in Nagoya and Nagoya University, Japan, Professor Hiroshi
1:04.3	Amano at Nagoya University, Japan, and Professor Judy Nakamura at University of California, Santa Barbara, for the invention
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