Invention of blue LEDs wins physics Nobel

Congrats to professors Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura for winning the Nobel prize in Physics in 2014!

Read more about the story here: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29518521 

Illustration of an LED 

"With 20% of the world's electricity used for lighting, it's been calculated that optimal use of LED lighting could reduce this to 4%”" - Dr Frances Saunders, President in Institute of Physics