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UCSB Professor Shuji Nakamura to Receive Prince of Asturias Award
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Author: LIGHTimes Staff

June 5, 2008... Professor Shuji Nakamura, Director UC Santa Barbara’s Solid-State Lighting and Energy Center, has again received accolades for his innovations related to the gallium nitride growth for blue LEDs and laser diodes while working at Nichia. Nakamura has been named a recipient of the 2008 Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research. Each award recipient is reportedly presented with a medal and a Joan Miro sculpture commissioned specifically for the awards. The recipients in each category also share a €50,000 (US$77,000) stipend.

The prize from the Prince of Asturias Foundation in the Technical and Scientific Research category is given annually to “the individual, work group or institution whose discoveries or research represent a significant contribution to the progress of humanity in the fields of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Medicine, Earth and Space Sciences, as well as their related technical aspects and technologies”.

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