Hideo Ozawa, founder and chairman of Nidek, has died at...

Hideo Ozawa, founder and chairman of Nidek, has died at the age of 79. He founded the Japanese company in 1971 with the idea of combining electronics with optics. The emperor of Japan honored him in 2004 with the Order of the Rising Sun.

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