The Takeda Award Forum 2002

My name is Nakamura. I am very grateful to be receiving this award. I had also prepared presentation materials but, as Professors Akasaki and Amano were going to make similar speeches, the Foundation asked me to make a speech without presentation materials, so that is what I will now do.
I was a corporate researcher. Professors Akasaki and Amano were researching at a university, but in my case I was at a company. Now I will talk about how I came to do research on light emitting devices (LED).
I was a graduate of Tokushima University - I graduated from a master's course at the University. I graduated from the electronics department, and after graduating, like most of the students in Japan, I wanted to join a big company. If we could enter big companies, we would be guaranteed lifetime employment as a salary man. Though I also intended to be a lifetime salary man, fate intervened, and it turned out that I needed to stay in Tokushima prefecture, for various private reasons.