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(L-R) Nobel Committee for Physics chairman Per Delsing, Staffan Normark, Permanent Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and Nobel Committee for Physics members Anne L'Huillier and Olle Inganas give a press conference to announce the winners of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics on October 7, 2014 at the Royal Swedish Academy of Science in Stockholm, Sweden. Three Japanese-born researchers -- Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura, who is currently based in the US -- won the Nobel Prize for Physics for inventing the LED lamp, a boon in the fight against global warming and aiding people in poverty. AFP PHOTO / JONATHAN NACKSTRAND (Photo credit should read JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images)