He was 85 when he won the Nobel Prize. Akasaki was born in what is now ... crystal that a few years later was used to create the blue LED.

Excerpts from speech Jimmy Carter gave as he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. "An exploration of how thorium could ...

The 2014 Nobel Physics Prize was presented to three researchers, Professor Isamu Akasaki, Professor Hiroshi Amano and Professor Shuji Nakamura for the invention of an efficient blue light-emitting ...

Former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at the age of 100, led an extraordinary life that began at a peanut farm in Plains, Georgia, and went on to include four years in the world's most ...

Jimmy Carter, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning 39th president of the United States who transformed his legacy from one-term commander-in-chief to beloved humanitarian, died on Sunday, Dec. 29 at the ...

Hans Ellegren (center), Permanent Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, announces the winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry ... dots are used in LED-lights and can also ...