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Prof. Shuji Nakamura, UCSB Materials Department

Co-winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on blue light LEDs and semiconductor lasers.

"The branch of science that deals with the structure, properties, and processing of materials, esp. with regard to their potential usefulness." -Oxford English Dictionary

"Materials science may be defined as the relationship of the properties of an object to its chemical composition and structure." - Materials Science & Engineering, Giles F. Carter and Donald E. Paul, 1991

• Materials Department
• California Nanosystems Institute
• Center for Stem Cell Biology and Engineering
• Institute for Energy Efficiency
• International Center for Materials Research
• Materials Research Laboratory
• Mitsubishi Chemical Center for Advanced Materials
• Solid State Lighting and Energy Electronics Center