text: As listed by ECS:
  * 2023 Fred Roozeboom
  * 2021 Hiroshi Iwai
  * 2019 David J. Lockwood
  * 2015 Yue Kuo
  * 2005 Dennis Hess
  * 1999 Isamu Akasaki
  * 1995 Wayne L. Worrell
  * 1993 Bruce E. Deal
  * 1987 Alfred Y. Cho
  * 1985 Jerry M. Woodall
  * 1983 Nick Holonyak, Jr.
  * 1981 Gerald L. Pearson
  * 1979 Morton B. Panish
  * 1977 Robert N. Hall
  * 1973 William G. Pfann