Hiroshi Amano is a Japanese physicist and Nobel laureate known for his work on blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Born on September 11, 1960, he, along with Isamu Akasaki and Shuji Nakamura, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2014 for the invention of efficient blue light sources, which are vital for the development of energy-saving white LED lighting.
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