Earlier this month on the Wolfram Blog, we wondered how many past winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics were users of Mathematica, and we waited in anticipation to learn who would receive this years Prize.
Yesterday the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2014 to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji Nakamura for inventing efficient blue light-emitting diodes enabling bright and energy-saving white light sources.
Heres an excerpt from the official press release:
When Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura produced bright
blue light beams from their semi-conductors in the early 1990s, they
triggered a fundamental transformation of lighting technology. Red and
green diodes had been around for a long time but without blue light,
white lamps could not be created. Despite considerable efforts, both
in the scientific community and in industry, the blue LED had remained
a challenge for three decades.
In recognition of the winners’ achievements, we wanted to highlight a few Nobel-inspired tweets submitted to Wolfram Tweet-a-Program focusing on the presence or absence of the color blue in images:
Feeling inspired too? Tweet your Nobel-inspired code of 140 characters or less to @wolframtap and share them here on Community.
P.S. Don’t miss our first Tweet-a-Program Challenge for Space Week !
