The wiki article was new to me. Thanks for posting.

The article I posted showed his techniques and hands-on approach and the struggle he went thru to invent something amid intense competition from bigger and richer companies. 

He was an underdog from a local unrecognized university on a small island and worked in a small company with almost no funds or support and dragged his idea all the way from scratch to completion, whereas his peers in the field of research in other big companies and big universities enjoyed great patronage and fate made it that he shared the Nobel prize with some of them which is good as they contributed to the science. 

I liked his journey in which he went to invent the Blue light LED and the politics surrounding in inventions and fighting for patents is common. I am surprised he went to this extent to win, that is great news.

It is a sad story for Corporate Scientists unlike University Scientists because many corporates treat them like crap as revenue-sucking leeches who do no fruitful research and make no contribution to the company's bottom line.

It is true to an extent and more prevalent but this invention of this magnitude that made the company millions of dollars deserves something more than just a $180 cheque and 0 royalty.

Corporates were greedy and took for granted his work and it is good news in a way that he won in Japan, the courts ordered the family corporate to pay 200 million USD but they settled at 8.5 million USD. It is a good victory in my view that forces corporates to appreciate contributing talents and hard work and not generalize and penalize the whole group of corporate researchers as good-for-nothing people.

I am not discounting there was some hidden agenda among corporates to sue other corporate for patent rights and royalty and try to tarnish the name, that is part of the game but Shuji Nakamura went to that extent which is atypical for nerdy scientists, and winning the legal battle in Japan itself makes him even more special and fate was in his side, not many would end up in right side against these Asian corporates in their home country, especially in patent-related battles.