Physics
Hiroshi Amano – Biographical
Biographical
I was born in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, on September 11, 1960, to my father Tatsuji and mother Yoshiko, and I grew up with younger brother Takashi. Hamamatsu is famous as the birthplace of Professor Kenjiro Takayanagi, a Japanese pioneer in the development of television, who succeeded in transmitting the first Katakana character “イ” by wireless…
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Isamu Akasaki – Biographical
Biographical
CURRICULUM VITAE Education Mar. 52: B. Sc., Kyoto University. Mar. 64: Dr. Eng. (Electronics), Nagoya University. Employment, Academic Appointments Apr. 52–Mar. 59: Research staff, Kobe Kogyo Corporation (now Fujitsu Ltd.). Apr. 59–Mar. 64: Research Associate, Assistant Professor and Associate Professor, Department of Electronics, Nagoya University. Apr. 64–Apr. 74: Head, Fundamental Research Laboratory-4, Matsushita Research Institute…
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Hiroshi Amano – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
Shuji Nakamura – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
Isamu Akasaki – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
Popular information
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In 1964, independently of each other, Peter Higgs and François Englert put forward a theory that rescued the Standard Model from collapse. Almost half a century later, they were both in the audience at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CERN, outside Geneva, when the discovery of a Higgs particle that finally confirmed the theory was announced to the world.
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