Nick Holonyak Scientist

Nick Holonyak, Jr. (born November 3, 1928) is an American engineer and educator. He is noted particularly for his 1962 invention of a light-emitting diode (LED) that emitted visible red light instead of infrared light; Holonyak was then working at the General Electric Company's research laboratory in Syracuse, New York. 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.

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Birth date	November 03, 1928
Birth place	Zeigler Illinois
Nationality	United States
Residence	United States
Education	University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

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awards	National Academy of Sciences Lemelson–MIT Prize National Inventors Hall of Fame National Medal of Science National Academy of Engineering IEEE Medal of Honor National Medal of Technology and Innovation
doctoral advisor	John Bardeen
Field of study	Electrical engineering