The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2014 to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura for inventing the blue LED. Isamu Akasaki is a professor at Meijo University and Nagoya University, Japan; Hiroshi Amano is a professor at Nagoya University, Japan; while Shuji Nakamura is a professor at University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.