Please join me in an enthusiastic congratulation to Prof. Shuji Nakamura at UCSB on the unrivaled honor of being selected for the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics “for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources“! Prof. Nakamura was my Ph.D advisor at UCSB and a world renowned scientist and pioneer on III-nitride semiconductors, optoelectronics, and MOCVD.
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2014/press.html
http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2014/014430/ucsb-materials-professor-shuji-nakamura-wins-nobel-prize