Nick Holonyak

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About Nick Holonyak

Nick Holonyak Jr. was born in Zeigler, Illinois on November 3, 1928. Holonyak was John Bardeen's first PhD student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and later created the first visible semiconductor lasers in 1960 and the first visible light-emitting diode in 1962 while working as a consulting scientist at a General Electric Company laboratory in Syracuse, New York.

News about Nick Holonyak

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