Nick Holonyak
American engineer and inventor
Died when: 93 years 319 days (1126 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
Nick Holonyak Jr. (/h?l?njæk/ 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.
This device was the forerunner of the first generation of commercial light-emitting diodes (LEDs).He was then working at a General Electric Company research laboratory near Syracuse, New York.
He left General Electric in 1963 and returned to his alma mater, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he later became John Bardeen Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics.
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