Seattle Times: Nick Holonyak Jr., pioneer of LED lighting, is dead at 93
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Nick Holonyak
Nick Holonyak Jr. was an American electronics engineer. He is noted particularly for his 1962 invention and first demonstration of a semiconductor laser diode that emitted visible light. This device was the forerunner of the first generation of commercial light-emitting diodes (LEDs). He was then working at a General Electric research laboratory near Syracuse, New York. He left General Electric in…
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Born 3 November 1928 · Died 20 September 2022 · Q360445
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2022· 6 entries
Chicago Tribune: Nick Holonyak Jr., pioneer of LED lighting and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professor, is dead at 93
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The Washington Post: Nick Holonyak Jr., who made an LED breakthrough, dies at 93
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Died 2022-09-20.
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The News-Gazette: Nick Holonyak Jr.: 'The world will be a dimmer place without his light of inspiration and genius'
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EurekAlert!: Nick Holonyak Jr. was in the Top Five -- Twice (IMAGE)
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2021· 1 entry
Awarded Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (2021).
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2017· 1 entry
Won Benjamin Franklin Medal (2017).
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2015· 1 entry
Awarded Charles Stark Draper Prize (2015).
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2008).
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2006· 1 entry
The American Institute of Physics decided on the five most important papers in each of its journals since it was founded 75 years ago
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2005· 1 entry
Announced the creation of a transistor laser that can operate at room temperatures
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2004· 3 entries
Awarded Lemelson–MIT Prize (2004).
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Awarded Von Hippel Award (2004).
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Awarded Washington Award (2004).
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2003· 3 entries
Won IEEE Medal of Honor (2003).
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Awarded Global Energy Prize (2003).
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"The cheap and reliable semiconductor lasers critical to DVD players, bar code readers and scores of other devices owe their existence in some small way to the demanding workload thrust upon Downstate railroad crews deca
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2002· 1 entry
Won National Medal of Technology and Innovation (2002).
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2001· 1 entry
Won Frederic Ives Medal (2001).
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded Japan Prize (1995).
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1993· 2 entries
Awarded NAS Award for the Industrial Application of Science (1993).
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Was named the John Bardeen Endowed Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded Charles Hard Townes Award (1992).
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1990· 1 entry
Won National Medal of Science (1990).
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1989· 1 entry
Won Edison Medal (1989).
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded IEEE Jack A. Morton Award (1981).
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1975· 1 entry
Awarded John Scott Award (1975).
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1973· 1 entry
Awarded IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award (1973).
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1963· 2 entries
Holonyak became a professor at the University of Illinois
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And returned to his alma mater, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he later became John Bardeen Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics
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1962· 1 entry
Announced the creation of the first visible-light laser diode
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1954· 1 entry
Holonyak went to Bell Telephone Laboratories, where he worked on silicon-based electronic devices
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1928· 2 entries
In Zeigler, Illinois, to Rusyn immigrants
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Born 1928-11-03.
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