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Hiroshi Amano

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Hiroshi Amano

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Japanese doctor of engineering and physicist (1960-), 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics

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Hiroshi Amano is a person who has been recognized with one Nobel Prize. He is included in the Nobel Laureates collection and the Nobel Physics collection. His name in kana is "あまの ひろし".

Amano has authored works including *III-Nitride Based Lighting Emitting Diodes and Applications*, *GaN and related alloys, 1999*, *Kusuri bunka orai*, and *Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Nitride Semiconductors (ICNS 5)*. Records indicate he has four or five works. He was born on 1960-09-11.

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics2014

    “for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
Japan
Place of birth
Hamamatsu
Occupation
engineer
Employer
Meijo University
Languages spoken
Japanese
Doctoral advisor
Isamu Akasaki
Student of
Isamu Akasaki
Field of work
physicist
Image
Hiroshi Amano.jpg
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date of birth
1960-09-11
name in kana
あまの ひろし
name in native language
天野浩
Commons category
Hiroshi Amano
interested in
physics
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Encyclopedic overview

Hiroshi Amano (Japanese: 天野 浩, romanized: Amano Hiroshi; born September 11, 1960) is a Japanese electronics engineer specializing in the field of semiconductor technology. He is a co-inventor of the blue LED, for which he was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Isamu Akasaki and Shuji Nakamura.

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