{"id":8283,"date":"2021-04-11T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T08:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/04\/11\/rip-isamu-akasaki-shared-nobel-prize-for-led-analog-guy\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T00:23:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:23:19","slug":"rip-isamu-akasaki-shared-nobel-prize-for-led-analog-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/04\/11\/rip-isamu-akasaki-shared-nobel-prize-for-led-analog-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Isamu Akasaki &#8212; Shared Nobel Prize for LED &#8212; Analog Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Akasaki2.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"345\" data-original-width=\"735\" height=\"188\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Akasaki2.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md \" data-el=\"text\" style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, \"Times New Roman\", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-small); line-height: 1.75; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 24px;\"><span style=\"font-size: var(--font-size-small);\"><b>From the obituary in the Washington Post: <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md \" data-el=\"text\" style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, \"Times New Roman\", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-small); line-height: 1.75; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 24px;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: var(--font-size-small);\">In addition to the Nobel Prize, Dr. Akasaki\u2019s honors included a<\/span><span style=\"font-size: var(--font-size-small);\"> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kyotoprize.org\/en\/laureates\/isamu_akasaki\/\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213); color: #1955a5; font-size: var(--font-size-small); text-decoration-line: none;\" title=\"www.kyotoprize.org\">2009 Kyoto Prize<\/a><span style=\"font-size: var(--font-size-small);\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: var(--font-size-small);\">\u2014 Japan\u2019s highest honor \u2014 recognizing developments in advanced technology. He found that some technology, however, needed no advancing at all. He took great pleasure, for example, in long-playing classical music records.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md \" data-el=\"text\" style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, \"Times New Roman\", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-small); line-height: 1.75; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 24px;\"><b>On that point, he joked, \u201cI am analog.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the obituary in the Washington Post: In addition to the Nobel Prize, Dr. Akasaki\u2019s honors included a 2009 Kyoto Prize \u2014 Japan\u2019s highest honor \u2014 recognizing developments in advanced technology. He found that some technology, however, needed no advancing at all. He took great pleasure, for example, in long-playing classical music records. On that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/04\/11\/rip-isamu-akasaki-shared-nobel-prize-for-led-analog-guy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RIP Isamu Akasaki &#8212; Shared Nobel Prize for LED &#8212; Analog Guy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,249,393],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japan","category-led","category-leds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8285,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8283\/revisions\/8285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}