Shuji Nakamura Quotations

I have been very fortunate to be supported by many people in my career. I also appreciate my personal friends, business friends, and my family who have been patient and understanding of my long working hours.

I couldn't achieve the American dream in Japan.

The LED light bulb is more than ten times the efficiency of regular incandescent lighting, so it can save the world hundreds of billions of dollars in electricity costs.

I am thankful to Nichia Chemical Corporation and its founder Nobu Ogawa, who gave me the research opportunity to create a blue LED.

I was so surprised because I'm not too sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize, you know, because basically, physics, it means that usually people was awarded for the invention of the basic theory. But in my case, not a basic theory, in my case just making the device, you know.

My dream was to work for one of the big electronics companies like Sony or Panasonic.

It is very satisfying to see that my dream of LED lighting has become a reality.

For people who currently have to burn fossil fuels to produce meager, polluting light, LED lighting is a game changer.

If I had gone to a big company, it would have been very difficult for me to do research freely. At a big company, say Sony, there are very, very good researchers. So I would have to ask them what I could do.

A small company like Nichia should do niche products.