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Nobel Prize

Japan · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

4Records
1965–2015Date range
4Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1965

Sin-Itiro Tomonaga1965

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics.

2014

Isamu Akasaki2014

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing efficient blue light-emitting diodes, enabling bright energy-saving white light sources.

Hiroshi Amano2014

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing efficient blue light-emitting diodes, enabling bright energy-saving white light sources.

2015

Takaaki Kajita2015

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering neutrino oscillations, showing that neutrinos have mass.

Names involved

Hiroshi AmanoIsamu AkasakiSin-Itiro TomonagaTakaaki Kajita

Provenance

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