Multiple choice

Who among the following persons won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics?

  1. Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland

  2. Saul Perlmutter, Adam G. Riess and Brian Schmidt

  3. Francois Englert and Peter W. Higgs

  4. Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura

  5. Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov

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Explanation

The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji Nakamura for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources. Their work on blue LEDs was crucial for creating white LED lighting.