Hiroshi Amano, one of the three Japan-born scientists to win this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics, has asked Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to boost support for fledgling researchers in the country.
“Young researchers are key because they are the ones who innovate,” Amano, a professor at Nagoya University, said in a presentation at a government meeting on science and technology at the prime minister’s office on Wednesday.
Holding a light with blue LEDs — the invention that netted the 54-year-old the award earlier this month, alongside Isamu Akasaki and Japanese-born American Shuji Nakamura — Amano said most of the progress on the energy-efficient light source was made in his 20s.
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