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IIRC, the company he worked for when he discovered / invented the blue LED was - shall we say - not particularly inclined to give him his dues.
by ur-whale 6y ago
IIRC, the company he worked for when he discovered / invented the blue LED was - shall we say - not particularly inclined to give him his dues.
- slow_kindjal 6y agoYou are talking about Shuji Nakamura.
- biscuit1 6y agoAnecdotally, Nakamura seems to get most of the credit in American academia
- fireattack 6y agoProbably because he's in American academia?
- gimmeThaBeet 6y agoI believe you might be thinking about Shuji Nakamura (and his then-employer Nichia), one of the other two who shared the prize. Akasaki and Amano were mostly associated with Nagoya University, and Akasaki later with Meijo.
- ur-whale 6y agoYou are correct, didn't recall correctly.
- amelius 6y agoWell, do inventors at Apple ever get any recognition? I only hear about their product designer Jony Ive.
- Blikkentrekker 6y agoI would assume that dues are about money, not recognition.
- amelius 6y agoMost likely, but they are very related and I was thinking about both.
- bumbada 6y agoUsually Apple does not invent anything, they design using what other people have invented. Apple does not focus on research as much as in development. They put billions into factories that mass produce what has been already proven to work. Multi touch for example was not invented by Apple, Apple bought a company that invented most of the technology and brought it into telephones. They did not invented Gorilla glass or accelerometers or small hard drives(like in the old ipod). They approached inventors and offered using their technologies in the millions or tens of millions of units.
- mjhagen 6y agoThey used to, with the original Macintosh.
- astrange 6y agoYou can find their names on their patents or on their Linkedins.
- ChrisMarshallNY 6y agoJapan, in general, does not like to highlight individuals; instead, focusing on the team. My boss wrote a book about color management, featuring the devices we made, and they made him remove his name. He did 100% of the work.
- asiachick 6y agoIt's true. But still there are plenty of examples of people in Japan taking credit vs the company. Hideo Kojima, Tetsuya Mizuguchi, Yu Suzuki, to name a few. Also, they take all the credit even though they also had teams, often who did all the real creative work. They also rarely share the rewards. Yu Suzuki had 6 expensive sports cars (Ferrari, etc...) while his teams worked 80hr weeks and got paid $30k-$40k salaries.