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    Nick Holonyak Jr. (/hʌlɒnjæk/ huh-LON-yak; November 3, 1928 – September 18, 2022) was an American engineer and educator. He is noted particularly for...
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    by the Global Energy Prize. In 2021, Nakamura, along with Akasaki, Nick Holonyak, M. George Craford, and Russell D. Dupuis, were awarded the Queen Elizabeth...
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    visible light. A particularly important device was demonstrated by Nick Holonyak on October 9, 1962, while he was working for General Electric in Syracuse...
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    organic materials. 1960 Theodore H. Maiman creates the first laser. 1962 Nick Holonyak Jr. develops the first practical visible-spectrum (red) light-emitting...
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    white light sources". In 2021, Akasaki, along with Shuji Nakamura, Nick Holonyak, M. George Craford and Russell D. Dupuis were awarded the Queen Elizabeth...
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    candidate. The first visible wavelength laser diode was demonstrated by Nick Holonyak, Jr. later in 1962; he used gallium arsenide-phosphide alloy. Other...
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  • American hip-hop DJ Nick Holmes (disambiguation), multiple people Nick Holonyak (born 1928), American engineer and educator Nick Holt (born 1962), college...
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  • 2005 Robert Dennard (Lemelson–MIT Lifetime Achievement Award) 2004 Nick Holonyak Jr. (Lemelson–MIT Prize) (John Bardeen Endowed Chair Emeritus in Electrical...
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    lithium-ion battery. 2015: Isamu Akasaki, M. George Craford, Russell Dupuis, Nick Holonyak, Jr. and Shuji Nakamura for the invention, development, and commercialization...
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    gratings, and nanostructure growth. In 2024, she received the IEEE Nick Holonyak Jr. Medal for pioneering contributions to vertical-cavity surface-emitting...
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    Sciences published a biographical memoir of Maiman including a tribute by Nick Holonyak, Jr. In 2017 UNESCO declared May 16 the International Day of Light,...
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  • supervision of Nick Holonyak. In 1989, Dallesasse co-discovered the III-V semiconductor oxidation processing technology with Nick Holonyak for the formation...
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    color for the first decade. The first practical LED was invented by Nick Holonyak in 1962 while he was at General Electric. The first practical LED display...
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  • K. Zworykin, John R. Pierce, Sidney Darlington, James L. Flanagan, Nick Holonyak, Robert H. Dennard, Dave Forney, and Kees Schouhamer Immink. Source...
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    including 24.3% of those under age 18 and 14.8% of those age 65 or over. Nick Holonyak, invented the first practically useful visible LED in 1962; born in...
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  • Prize for Engineering was awarded to Isamu Akasaki, Shuji Nakamura, Nick Holonyak Jr, M. George Craford and Russell Dupuis for the creation and development...
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    (1880) John Richardson Wigham – electric lighthouse illumination (1885) Nick Holonyak – light-emitting diode (1962) Howard Borden, Gerald Pighini, Mohamed...
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  • 1955 – Tomlinson Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at McGill University Nick Holonyak, Jr., B.S. 1950, M.S. 1951, Ph.D. 1954 – John Bardeen Endowed Chair...
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  • 1947 (age 76–77) Nationality American Awards IEEE Edison Medal (2007) Scientific career Fields Electrical engineering Doctoral advisor Nick Holonyak Jr....
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  • 1960 American engineer Theodore Maiman develops the first laser 1962 Nick Holonyak invented the LED 1963 First home Videocassette recorder (VCR) 1963 Electronic...
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    the near-infrared band of the spectrum at 850 nm. Later that year, Nick Holonyak Jr. demonstrated the first semiconductor laser with a visible emission...
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    Bears Erika Harold, Miss America 2003 Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy Nick Holonyak Jr., inventor of the visible light-emitting diode Hum, rock group Mannie...
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  • recording data on a machine-readable medium, tabulator, punched cards Nick Holonyak (1928–2022), U.S. – LED (Light Emitting Diode) Norman Holter (1914–1983)...
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  • 2004 issue of the journal Applied Physics Letters, Milton Feng and Nick Holonyak, the inventor of the first practical light-emitting diode (LED) and...
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    Archived from the original on December 6, 2023. Retrieved May 13, 2024. "Nick Holonyak, Jr. - IEEE Awards". Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers...
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    development of semiconductor heterostructures for high-speed optoelectronics Nick Holonyak Award (Optical Society of U.S., 2000) EPS Europhysics Prize (European...
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    Professorship, from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. 2014, Nick Holonyak Jr. Award, from the Optical Society. 2017, IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal...
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    artist John Warhola, American artist Julia Warhola, American artist Nick Holonyak, American electrical engineer and inventor of first light-visible LED...
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  • incremental work in developing the LED by other pioneers such as Oleg Losev, Nick Holonyak, and Gertrude Neumark and overlooked a prior claim for invention of...
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    Communication System". www.invent.org. June 4, 2024. "NIHF Inductee Nick Holonyak, Who Invented LED". www.invent.org. June 5, 2024. Archived from the...
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