Nobel Prize for LED Lights

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The Physics world is booming after only a few days ago the Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to three physicists who managed to revolutionize the way LED Lights are used. There was one major thing that held back LED lights from being used by everyone around the world. They couldn’t produce white light. The Light-emitting diodes could be produced as red or green diodes for the longest time, but no one could figure out how to make blue diodes. Without blue diodes, LED could never actually become a white light emitting product that could replace all the incandescent light bulbs in the world.

That is, until one American and two Japanese scientists worked together since the 90’s to figure out how to make a blue diode. Eventually they managed to succeed, and be the only ones who were able to do it. Because of this, they are the sole reason that the world is able to advance in a new light, quite literally. Without these three scientists, there would be no companies that offer LED lights; there wouldn’t even be LED lights at large, because without the blue diode there just wasn’t a lot that could be done with the other colors.

The committee that decided upon the winner in the Nobel Prize for Physics for 2014 specifically stated that LED lights would be the wave of the future and the light of the 21st century. While we can only speculate on it, it does seem like the entire LED lightinginvention of a new industry certainly warrants a Nobel Prize. It won’t be long before we start hearing that Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura are called the fathers of LED lights, considering their work.

Plus, we know that over a quarter of the world’s electricity goes solely to lighting, so imagine just how much electricity will be saved across the world when everyone is switched to the cheaper and easier to connect LED light. To save the world that much energy, it is definitely a noble cause to benefit human kind, exactly the kind of thing the Nobel Prize was meant for, even if LED lights weren’t actually a discovery, only more an invention.