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).
Shuji Nakamura in 2015, with a blue LED
Japanese Americans are Americans of Japanese ancestry. Japanese Americans were among the three largest Asian American ethnic communities during the 20th century; but, according to the 2000 census, they have declined in ranking to constitute the sixth largest Asian American group at around 1,469,637, including those of partial ancestry.
A street in Seattle's Nihonmachi in 1909
Japanese Americans in Hawaii 1943
Japanese American in Nyssa, Oregon, 1931
Families of Japanese ancestry being removed from Los Angeles during World War II