Amano scientist still do not believe that he had received the Nobel Prize – Moskovsky Komsomolets

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Nobel Prize in Physics for 2014 Japanese scientist Hiroshi Amano learned of the award of the prestigious award at the airport – on the way to a business trip to France – and still does not believe it.

“I flew in transit through Frankfurt, I had the time, and I decided to check the mail. saw plenty of congratulations. But when he began to read, at first did not believe in the very that’s true. And now still not fully believe, “- said in an interview with Amano Japanese broadcaster NHK from Grenoble, where there is a business trip.

The winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2014 became the 85th year-old Japanese scientist from the University of Isamu Akasaka Meydzё (Nagoya, Japan), 54-year-old Hiroshi Amano at the University of Nagoya (Nagoya, Japan) and 60-year-old Shuji Nakamura of the University of California (Santa Barbara, CA, USA) for the creation of blue LEDs – a task which was considered impossible in the twentieth century.