Shuji Nakamura
Shuji Nakamura is a Japanese-American electronic engineer and inventor of the blue LED, a major breakthrough in lighting technology. Nakamura specializes in the field of semiconductor technology, and he is a professor of materials science at the College of Engineering of the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).
22 May 1954
Born on the same birth date (22 May 1954): Barbara May Cameron
Born on the same birth day (22 May): Aston Webb • Cha Bum-kun • Dustin Moskovitz • George Andrew Olah • Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst • Herbert C. Brown • Itzam Kʼan Ahk I • Johann Nepomuk Schödlberger • Jürgen Melzer • Katie Price • Rafael Gil • Robert Spitzer (psychiatrist)
Born in the same month (May 1954): Amy Heckerling • Charles Saumarez Smith • Colin Sutherland, Lord Carloway • David Keith (actor) • David Paterson • Eric Gerets • Joel Rosenberg (science fiction author) • John Tory • Johnny Logan (singer) • May 29 • Murali (Malayalam actor) • Pauline Hanson • Ray Parker Jr. • Stephen Furst