Prof. Shuji Nakamura received honorary doctorate from the University of Wroclaw
American scientist of Japanese origin, Prof. Shuji Nakamura during the ceremony of awarding honorary doctorate of the University of Wroclaw in the Leopold Auditorium, University of Wroclaw. Photo: PAP/Maciej Kulczyński 17.09.2015
Prof. Shuji Nakamura, American physicist of Japanese origin who received Nobel Prize in 2014 for inventing the LED emitting blue light, on September 17 received honorary doctorate from the University of Wroclaw. It was his first such title in Europe.
During the ceremony of awarding honorary doctorate of the University of Wroclaw, Prof. Nakamura emphasized that it was the first such award he received in Europe.
He said that he felt a part of this university and for him it was a great honour and distinction, because in more than three hundred year history of the university there were eleven Nobel Prize winners. He was honoured to join them.
He added that he felt especially honoured because many great scientists came from Poland, including Jan Czochralski, who developed a method of single crystal growth.
Dean of the Faculty of Physics, University of Wrocław Prof. Antoni Ciszewski presenting the achievements of Prof. Nakamura remarked that he often participated in scientific contacts with employees of the university and was willing to give lectures in Wroclaw.
The laudation was delivered by residing at the University of Wroclaw Prof. Detlef Hommel, an employee of Wroclaw Research Centre EIT+ .He emphasised that 61 years old Nakamura is the creator of blue optoelectronics and energy-efficient LEDs.
Nakamura graduated from the University of Tokushima in 1979 and began working in the then little-known company Nichia Chemical Industries Ltd.
The scientist conducted research on gallium nitride (GaN) compounds and was the first, in 1991-1993, to obtain high-quality InGaN, which is the active component in all current blue-green LEDs. Based on this achievement and the invention of p-type conductivity in GaN on an industrial scale in 1994, he presented the first blue LEDs.
In the same year he defended his doctoral dissertation at the University of Tokushima. Two years later he produced the first blue-violet laser diode.
Nakamura achievements, however, were not appreciated by Nichia Corporation. He decided to leave Japan in 1999 and became a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he still works today.
Prof. Shuji Nakamura is undoubtedly one of the most outstanding contemporary inventors. He co-authored over 550 scientific publications and more than 420 patents.
For his work he has received many awards and honours, among them the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics (2002), the Millennium Technology Prize (2006). In 2014. Together with Prof. Isamu Akasaki and Prof. Hiroshi Amano he won the Nobel Prize in Physics.
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