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2014 Nobel Prize in Physics
听力内容：
60秒科学节目（SSS）是科学美国人网站的一套广播栏目，英文名称：Scientific American – 60 Second Science,节目内容以科学报道为主，节目仅一分钟的时间，主要对当今的科学技术新发展作以简明、通俗的介绍，对于科学的发展如何影响人们的生活环境、健康状况及科学技术，提供了大量简明易懂的阐释。
“This year’s prize is about light.” Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Permanent Secretary Staffan Normark.
“The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics to Professor Isamu Akasaki at Meijo University, Nagoya, and Nagoya University, Japan; Professor Hiroshi Amano at Nagoya University, Japan; and Professor Shuji Nakamura at University of California, Santa Barbara, for the invention of efficient blue light–emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources. Professor Per Delsing will now give us a short summary.”
“Red and green LEDs have been around for many years, but the blue was really missing. This lamp contains three LEDs: one red, one green and one blue. If you combine these colors you get white light. This is something that Isaac Newton showed already in 1671. Thanks to the blue LED, we can now get white light sources which have very high energy efficiency and very long lifetime. This LED technology is now replacing older technologies. In fact, many of you carry this technology in your pocket. The flashlight and also the screen of modern smartphones uses LED technology.”
For a more in-depth listen about the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics, look for the Scientific American Science Talk podcast later this morning.
—Steve Mirsky
