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History was made on Friday when an Indian and a Pakistani jointly shared the Nobel Peace Prize for 2014.India's Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistan's Malala Yousafzay were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for "showing great personal courage" and their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.
In This Pic : Malala Yousafzay, Kailash Satyarthi
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The
invention of an energy source that lights up our computer and/or mobile
phone screens and holds promise to brighten up the quality of life of
over 1.5 billion people around the world, has been awarded the Nobel
prize for physics 2014.
In This Pic : Shuji Nakamura, Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano
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Announcing that "this year's Nobel prize for physics is about light",
the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences decided to award the most coveted
prize to three Japanese scientists — Isamu Akasaki from Meijo
University, Hiroshi Amano from the Nagoya University, Japan and Shuji
Nakamura from the University of California "for the invention of
efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and
energy-saving white light sources."
In This Pic : Shuji Nakamura, Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano
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The
laureates were rewarded for having invented a new energy-efficient and
environment-friendly light source — the blue light-emitting diode (LED). (Pic: Nobel Prize twitter account)
In This Pic : Shuji Nakamura, Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano
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According to the committee, the laureates' inventions revolutionized the field of illumination technology. (Pic: Nobel Prize twitter account)
In This Pic : Nobel prize for physics announced
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