I am thankful to Nichia Chemical Corporation and its founder Nobu Ogawa, who gave me the research opportunity to create a blue LED.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
For myself, I warmly thank the Nobel Foundation and the Committee for Chemistry for this mark of their approbation and for an award which confers the highest distinction that a scientist can achieve. I am greatly beholden also to my sponsors and supporters.
I have led a pretty colorful life.
A small company like Nichia should do niche products.
When I started on my research, I never expected I could invent the LED and laser diode.
The prize was really for the molecule. In 1962, Osamu Shimomura discovered a protein in a jellyfish that caused it to glow bright green. With colleagues, 30 years later, I was able to insert this G.F.P. gene into bacteria and make them turn green.
I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
This discovery convinced me of the power of crystallography and led me to continue in this field.
When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky research.
Greenpeace is the world's largest feel-good organisation now, and I can say that 'cause I am one of their co-founders.
Many researchers have joined the field and applied the LED to many new markets such as mobile phone screens, LED TV, and LED Lighting.
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