The hundreds of experimental failures that paved the road to winning the Nobel Prize for physics was fun, rather than frustration, one of this year’s three Japanese-born laureates said on Friday.
Hiroshi Amano, 54, sat next to Isamu Akasaki, 85, his one-time mentor-professor, when they met the press at Nagoya University in central Japan days after they were honoured alongside Shuji Nakamura for inventing the blue LED.‘I’ve never thought I wanted to quit in my research,’ Amano said. ‘I would always fail in experiments, which I did at least three times a day.
Hiroshi Amano, 54, sat next to Isamu Akasaki, 85, his one-time mentor-professor, when they met the press at Nagoya University in central Japan days after they were honoured alongside Shuji Nakamura for inventing the blue LED.‘I’ve never thought I wanted to quit in my research,’ Amano said. ‘I would always fail in experiments, which I did at least three times a day.