Shuji Nakamura

For people who currently have to burn fossil fuels to produce meager, polluting light, LED lighting is a game changer.

I hope that energy-efficient LED light bulbs will help reduce energy use and lower the cost of lighting worldwide.

I'm not sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize or not, but the Nobel Committee called me, and, 'You got the Nobel Prize.' So, I was so, so happy, and I was so surprised.

I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

I just had an idea that went right over my head.