Blue Light-Emitting Diode Inventors Awarded Nobel Prize

[DanS26]

Great news for those that helped the solar industry especially the off grid systems.

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2014/press.html

[russ]

News? It happened 20 years back.

[DanS26]

News? It happened 20 years back.

"Cute"

[inetdog]

News? It happened 20 years back.

The awarding of the prize (>$1,000,000) is definitely news!

One on-line news feed had the headline "Nobel Prize awarded to investors of LED".
I hope we don't ever reach the point where financing an invention is honored as much as the intellectual effort involved.