LEDs became energy-efficient and colourful, thanks to Wolfgang Schnick

Normally, LEDs can be either energy-efficient or have a better colour rendering. These two requirements, both of which one would of course always like to fulfill, have always been mutually exclusive. That is, until Professor Dr. Wolfgang Schnick of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München found ways to solve this problem. That’s exactly why he has been awarded the Liebig commemorative medal. “The award is a great honor for our – one can almost say – life’s work”, Schnick says. “And for the work of many doctoral students, who are naturally all very enthusiastic about coming out in public.”