{"id":14220,"date":"2014-10-07T12:13:45","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T17:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14220"},"modified":"2014-10-07T12:16:39","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T17:16:39","slug":"the-2014-nobel-prize-in-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14220","title":{"rendered":"The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>This year\u2019s Nobel Laureates are rewarded for having invented a new energy-efficient and environment-friendly light source \u2013 the blue light-emitting diode (LED). In the spirit of Alfred Nobel the Prize rewards an invention of greatest benefit to mankind; using blue LEDs, white light can be created in a new way. With the advent of LED lamps we now have more long-lasting and more efficient alternatives to older light sources.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/physics\/laureates\/2014\/press.html\">The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics &#8211; Press Release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When <strong>Isamu Akasaki<\/strong>, <strong>Hiroshi Amano<\/strong> and <strong>Shuji Nakamura<\/strong> produced bright blue light beams from their semi-conductors in the early 1990s, they triggered a funda-mental transformation of lighting technology. Red and green diodes had been around for a long time but without blue light, white lamps could not be created. Despite considerable efforts, both in the scientific community and in industry, the blue LED had remained a challenge for three decades.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s Nobel Laureates are rewarded for having invented a new energy-efficient and environment-friendly light source \u2013 the blue light-emitting diode (LED). In the spirit of Alfred Nobel the Prize rewards an invention of greatest benefit to mankind; using blue &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14220\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[1207,862,647],"class_list":["post-14220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-nobel-prize","tag-physics","tag-semiconductors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14222,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14220\/revisions\/14222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}