Brilliant! Bob Johnstone.Brilliant! Bob Johnstone Prometheus Books 59 John Glenn Drive, Amherst, NY 14228-2197 9781591024620, $28.00 www.prometheusbooks.com BRILLIANT! SHUJI NAKAMURA Shuji Nakamura (中村 修二 Nakamura Shūji, born in May 22 1954, Ikata, Ehime, Japan) is a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). AND THE REVOLUTION IN LIGHTING TECHNOLOGY tells of the evolution of LED technology and how it was stalled over making an LED that would emit TO EMIT. To put out; to send forth, 2. The tenth section of the first article of the constitution, contains various prohibitions, among which is the following: No state shall emit bills of credit. the bright blue light needed to make useful white light LEDs--until researcher Shuji Nakamura's key invention which single-handedly created the industry of solid-state lighting Solid state lighting (SSL) refers to a type of lighting that utilizes light-emitting diodes (LEDs), organic light-emitting diodes (OLED), or polymer light-emitting diodes (PLED) as sources of illumination rather than electrical filaments or gas. . Author Bob Johnstone is the first Western journalist to meet and interview Nakamura, and here provides a powerful blend of science and biography to show how the inventor INVENTOR. One who invents or finds out something. 2. The patent laws of the United States authorize a patent to be issued to the original inventor; if the invention is suggested by another, he is not the inventor within the meaning of those laws; but in that made his ground-breaking discovery and how LEDs are revolutionizing the world. Any science library strong in invention history needs BRILLIANT! |
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