Nick Holonyak
Nick Holonyak Jr. is 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 is 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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Date of Birth
November 3rd, 1928
Age
98
Birth Place
United States of America, Illinois
Date of Death
September 18th, 2022
Died Aged
93
Star Sign
Scorpio
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