Nobel Prize
People tagged with Nobel Prize.
15 profiles
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Willard Boyle
Canadian physicist who co-invented the CCD image sensor
1924 – 2011
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Shuji Nakamura
Japanese-American engineer who invented the bright blue LED
Born 1954
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Isamu Akasaki
Japanese scientist who made the first gallium-nitride blue LED
1929 – 2021
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Herbert A. Simon
Nobel-winning economist and AI pioneer who studied how people make decisions
1916 – 2001
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Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor who pioneered long-distance radio and won the Nobel Prize
1874 – 1937
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Geoffrey Hinton
“Godfather of AI” and Nobel laureate who made neural networks work
Born 1947
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Charles K. Kao
“Godfather of broadband” who showed glass fibres could carry light over long distances
1933 – 2018
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John Bardeen
Only person to win the Nobel Prize in Physics twice — for the transistor and superconductivity
1908 – 1991
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William Shockley
Nobel-winning co-inventor of the transistor who brought silicon to Silicon Valley
1910 – 1989
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Hiroshi Amano
Japanese physicist who co-created the blue LED as a graduate student
Born 1960
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Demis Hassabis
Co-founder of DeepMind and Nobel laureate for AlphaFold
Born 1976
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John Hopfield
Physicist who invented the Hopfield network and won the 2024 Nobel Prize
Born 1933
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Walter Brattain
Bell Labs physicist who co-invented the transistor
1902 – 1987
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Jack Kilby
Texas Instruments engineer who invented the integrated circuit
1923 – 2005
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George E. Smith
Bell Labs physicist who co-invented the CCD image sensor
1930 – 2025