www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2014/press.html
www.aapt.org/Resources/Diodes.cfm
To celebrate the 2014 Nobel Prize in physics award for the development of blue LEDs to Akasaki, Amano, and Nakamura, AAPT has released a collection of articles and activities using diodes and LEDs for classroom physics teaching. These articles are culled from the American Journal of Physics and The Physics Teacher (I particularly recommend the recent Etkina and Planinšič pieces). Interestingly, the 2014 Nobel in Chemistry (to Betzig, Hell, and Moerner) for nanoscopy further underscores the importance of physics in richly interdisciplinary science. Congrats to all of the new laureates and let's try to get their work into our classrooms.
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