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Discovered 2000 Mar. 13 by A. Nakamura at Kuma Kogen.
Shuji Nakamura (b. 1954), born in Ehime prefecture, is an electronics engineer best known as the inventor of the blue LED and the violet-blue laser, as well as for his work on gallium nitride. Nakamura has served as a professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara since 1999.
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