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Nick Holonyak

1928 - 2022

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Nick Holonyak Jr. ( 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). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nick Holonyak is the 408th most popular physicist (down from 402nd in 2019), the 2,946th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,644th in 2019) and the 81st most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Nick Holonyak ranks 408 out of 851. Before him are Paul Drude, Friedrich Ernst Dorn, Samuel Goudsmit, Yoshio Nishina, Otto Schmidt, and Jacob Bekenstein. After him are Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Edwin Hall, Oskar Klein, Philip Abelson, Charles H. Bennett, and William Watson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Nick Holonyak ranks 157. Before him are Petr Ginz, Mihály Lantos, Otto F. Kernberg, Vidal Sassoon, Malcolm Glazer, and Walter Tevis. After him are Ralph Waite, William Klein, Martin Davis, László Budai, Thomas E. Kurtz, and Nodar Dumbadze. Among people deceased in 2022, Nick Holonyak ranks 130. Before him are Mirosław Hermaszewski, Paul Sorvino, Mwai Kibaki, Christine McVie, Margarita Lozano, and Fernando Gomes. After him are Tony Sirico, Just Jaeckin, Charles Greene, Shintaro Ishihara, Christos Sartzetakis, and William Klein.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Nick Holonyak ranks 2,946 out of 20,380. Before him are George Reeves (1914), Alan King (1927), Irvin Kershner (1923), Heather Locklear (1961), Charles M. Rice (1952), and Michael P. Anderson (1959). After him are Julian Schnabel (1951), Joseph Jenkins Roberts (1809), Gigi Hadid (1995), Audre Lorde (1934), Richie Sambora (1959), and Harold Eugene Edgerton (1903).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Nick Holonyak ranks 81. Before him are Theodore Lyman IV (1874), Frank Wilczek (1951), Nathan Rosen (1909), Karl Guthe Jansky (1905), Edward Witten (1951), and Walter A. Shewhart (1891). After him are Edwin Hall (1855), Philip Abelson (1913), Charles H. Bennett (1943), Lyman Spitzer (1914), Robert W. Wood (1868), and John Mauchly (1907).

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