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My favourite Nobel prize: the blue LED that lights up the modern world

27 Sep 2019 Margaret Harris

With the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics due to be announced on Tuesday 8 October, Physics World journalists pick their favourite Nobel awards from the past. Here Margaret Harris argues the case for the 2014 prize for inventing the blue LED

A new hue: blue LEDs are lighting the 21st century. (Courtesy: iStock/damarco-media)
Of all the physics Nobel prizes awarded in the past 60 years, the one with the greatest impact on ev

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Margaret Harris is an online editor of Physics World
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