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Blue LEDs, and the more general Gallium Nitride film technologies have tremendous impact in our everyday world. Enormous, tangible energy savings in lighting. Enabling of zillion medical applications. Blu-Rays, high density DVDs, high mobility transistors...

And if there were a Nobel Prize in Engineering, I'd be on board with this.

seriously, what discovery do you have in mind?

I don't know. It's not my job to keep up with physics research, it's the Nobel committee's.



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