Nick Holonyak
(1928-2022)
American inventor
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Nick Holonyak Jr. (November 3, 1928 – September 18, 2022) was an American engineer and educator. He is noted particularly for his 1962 invention of a light-emitting diode (LED) that emitted visible red light instead of infrared light; Holonyak demonstrated the LED on October 9, 1962 while working at General Electric's research laboratory in Syracuse, New York. He was a John Bardeen Endowed Chair Emeritus in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he has been since leaving General Electric in 1963.
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3 November 1928 Zeigler, Illinois
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18 September 2022 (aged 93)
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| Zodiac | Scorpio |
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