Nick Holonyak
Physicist, Inventor
1928 –
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Who is Nick Holonyak?
Nick Holonyak, Jr. invented the first visible-spectrum LED in 1962 while working as a consulting scientist at a General Electric Company laboratory in Syracuse, New York. He has been referred to by some people as "the father of the light-emitting diode". He is a John Bardeen Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics and Professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he has been since 1963. Holonyak retired at the end of July 2013 after 50 years at Illinois.
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