Nick Holonyak

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Nick Holonyak Jr. (born November 3, 1928) created the first visible light-emitting diode in 1962 while working as a consulting scientist at a General Electric Company laboratory in Syracuse, New York.

In 1963 he joined John Bardeen at the University of Illinois and worked on quantum wells and quantum-well lasers.

As of 2003 he is the John Bardeen Endowed Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is investigating methods for manufacturing quantum dot lasers.

In 2003 he was awarded the IEEE Medal of Honor.

Reference

• Red Hot (http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/jun03/med.html); Tekla S. Perry; IEEE Spectrum Online; 30 May 2003.nl:Nick Holonyak

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