Japanese Nobel-prize-winning semiconductor pioneer Isamu Akasaki dies aged 92

(from physicsworld.com) The Japanese semiconductor pioneer Isamu Akasaki has died at the age of 92. His work in the late 1980s and early 1990s led to the development of blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs), which soon found a wide range of applications from low-energy light bulbs and mobile-phone displays to televisions. For the work Akasaki shared the…