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Nobel Prize Goes to Inventors Blue LED: Why It Was Revolutionary
2014-10-07 22:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: The 2014 Nobel Prize in physics went Tuesday to three scientists who gave lighting a makeover by inventing blue LED lights. The award recognizes a seemingly commonplace innovation, but one that has paved the way for a sea change in lighting efficiency that is under way around the world. Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji Nakamura developed the blue light-emitting diode (LED) in Japan in the early 1990s, triggering a "fundamental transformation of lighting technology," according to a press...
Blue LED inventors awarded Nobel Prize for creating white LED lighting revolution
2014-10-07 13:40:42| Extremetech
The three Japanese scientists who invented the first efficient blue LEDs in the mid 1990s have received the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics. The invention of efficient blue LEDs was a foundational step in the creation of the bright white LED lights being produced by the likes of Cree and Philips, which are driving the most significant transformation in lighting technology since the invention of the incandescent bulb.
Nobel Prize awarded to scientists for discovering the brains inner GPS system
2014-10-06 15:27:25| Extremetech
2014's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to John O'Keefe, May-Britt Moser, and Edvard Moser for their discovery of the brain's 'inner GPS' system. The prize revolves around their discovery of place cells and grid cells in the brain that appear to create a cognitive map of every room or space that you've ever explored. As you move around a room or space, a very specific place cell fires -- and when you visit the same place again in the future, the same place cell fires every time.
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350.org founder Bill McKibben receives Alternative Nobel award
2014-09-26 07:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Renowned US environmentalist Bill McKibben will be one of the recipients of this years Right Livelihood Awards, known as the Alternative Nobel, it has been announced. McKibben is the founder of the campaign group 350.org, which is lobbying around the world to build an international movement to stop climate change. The author and journalist is widely credited with popularising fossil fuel divestment, after communicating the concept in his 2012 Rolling Stone article Global Warmings Terrifying...
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Canadian researcher Stephen Scherer among those predicted to win Nobel Prize
2014-09-25 07:50:27| IT Services - Topix.net
A Canadian researcher is being touted as a potential Nobel Prize winner by an organization that predicts which scientists are most likely to take home one of the coveted awards. Dr. Stephen Scherer, director of the Centre for Applied Genomics at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, has been selected as a 2014 "Nobel-class" citation laureate in physiology or medicine by Thomson Reuters Intellectual Property & Science.
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