Nick Holonyak

Nick Holonyak
1928 - 2022
Nick Holonyak  American Inventor
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First Name Nick
Last Name Holonyak
Birthday 3rd November, 1928
Birthplace Zeigler, Illinois
Died 18th September, 2022
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Nationality American
Occupation Inventor

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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