Nobel Laureate Professor Nakamura
Press Conference at Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan
January 16, 2015, Tokyo, Japan : The winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, Shuji Nakamura answers journalist questions during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in downtown Tokyo. Nakamura together with Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano, is the inventor of the blue light-emitting diode (LED) which saw the team receive the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2014. Nakamura is also responsible for creating the white LED and blue laser diode, which are necessary for Blu-ray Discs and HD DVDs. (Photo by Rodrigo Reyes Marin/AFLO)