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Nick Holonyak Jr. (/ h ʌ l ɒ n j æ k / huh-LON-yak; November 3, 1928 – September 18, 2022) was an American engineer and educator. He is noted particularly for his 1962 invention and first demonstration of a semiconductor laser diode that emitted visible light.
Sep 30, 2022 · Nick Holonyak Jr., an electrical engineer who became known as the godfather of the LED lighting that illuminates flat-screen TVs and laptop computers, and who also developed lasers that enabled...
Nick Holonyak, Jr. (born November 3, 1928, Zeigler, Illinois, U.S.—died September 18, 2022, Urbana, Illinois) was an American engineer who was known for his pioneering work with light-emitting diodes (LEDs), notably creating the first visible LED.
Sep 30, 2022 · Nick Holonyak Jr., a prolific inventor and longtime professor of electrical engineering and computing, died on 17 September at the age of 93.
Oct 1, 2012 · Nick Holonyak Jr., invented the visible light-emitting diode. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer Researchers around the world were soon producing lasers from other solid materials, such as calcium fluoride, and from gases, such as a helium/neon mixture.
Sep 22, 2022 · Nick Holonyak Jr., whose development in 1962 of the first practical visible-spectrum light-emitting diode, or LED, proved a breakthrough that now has countless practical applications,...
Nick Holonyak, Jr., the John Bardeen Endowed Chair Emeritus in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics. CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Nick Holonyak Jr., a renowned innovator of illumination, died Sept. 18 in Urbana, Ill. The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professor was 93 years old.
He was the first graduate student of John Bardeen, a physicist and engineer with the unique distinction of having been honored with two Franklin Institute medals and two Nobel Prizes. Holonyak received his master's degree in 1951 and his doctoral in 1954, both in electrical engineering.
Jul 26, 2023 · A member of the electrical engineering and physics faculties since 1963 and the John Bardeen Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics since 1993, Nick Holonyak Jr. is internationally recognized for major contributions to elemental and compound semiconductors, including semiconductor lasers and incoherent light emitters.
Sep 19, 2022 · CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Nick Holonyak Jr., a renowned innovator of illumination, died Sept. 18 in Urbana, Ill. The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professor was 93 years old.
