On 10/14/2014, 8:27 PM, micky wrote:
I think 3 people won the Nobel Prize in physics for inventing the blue
LED.

Did the inventor of the first (red) LED get a Nobel prize. It seems a
lot harder to invent the first one than the third or fourth.

The red guy perhaps was the first to think of the idea, but even if not,
he had to think it could be done and then go do it.

The blue guy just has to try many many combinations unitil he finds one
that is blue. Just because it's the last piece in the puzzle, I don't
think it's Nobel-worthy.


Quite a reasonable question:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/sc...k-9782948.html

I too would think that the original inventor should have been honoured,
not just some fine-tuners along the way...

John :-#(#
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