Nick Holonyak Jr.[1] (born November 3, 1928) is an American engineer and educator.[2] 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.[3][4] 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.[5]
Nick Holonyak Jr.[1] | |
|---|---|
 Inventor of the visible-spectrum (red) LED | |
| Born | November 3, 1928 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; BS 1950, MS 1951, PhD 1954 |
| Awards | National Academy of Engineering (1973) National Academy of Sciences (1984), IEEE Edison Medal (1989) National Medal of Science (1990) National Medal of Technology (2002) IEEE Medal of Honor (2003) Global Energy Prize (2003) Lemelson-MIT Prize (2004) National Inventors Hall of Fame (2008) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Electrical engineering |
| Thesis | Effect of Surface Conditions on Characteristics of Rectifier Junctions (1954) |
| Doctoral advisor | John Bardeen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Holonyak
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