Updated 2:31 p.m. Moscow Time
STOCKHOLM/MOSCOW, October 7 (RIA Novosti) – The 2014 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura for the invention of efficient and environment-friendly blue light-emitting diodes (LED), the award committee announced Tuesday.
The prize was awarded "for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources," the committee said.
Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano are professors from Japan's Nagoya University, while Shuji Nakamura works at University of California.
The physicists will share prize money of eight million kronor, or almost $140,000.
A day before, the Nobel Prize committee announced that three neuroscientists had won its "physiology or medicine" award for a groundbreaking research on nerve cells that form a positioning system in the human brain.
Nobel Prize awards ceremonies for the scientists are scheduled for December 10. Four of the five original prizes established by Alfred Nobel — for physiology or medicine, physics, chemistry and literature, as well as for economics — will be awarded in Stockholm, Sweden.
The Nobel Prize for chemistry is to be announced on October 8.
