From: bill.sloman@ieee.org   
      
   On 5/02/2026 7:31 am, Gerhard Hoffmann wrote:   
   > Am 04.02.26 um 15:35 schrieb Bill Sloman:   
   >>   
   >> Blue LED's were a Japanese invention. American tend to be unaware of   
   >> this.   
   >   
   > Siemens Silicon Carbide   
      
     The 2014 Nobel prize in Physics was awarded to 3 scientists who   
   ‘invented’ the blue LED in the 1990s, despite the fact that a 1974 US   
   patent indicates otherwise.   
      
   There's a distinction between inventing something that barely works and   
   inventing something that works well enough to dominate the market.   
      
   The three Japanese scientist who did that did get the Nobel prize for it.   
      
   --   
   Bill Sloman, Sydney   
      
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