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Nick Holonyak, Jr. is called the
godfather of light-emitting diodes, or LEDs. We interact with Holonyak's
inventions every day. The technology in visible LEDs, household dimmer
switches,…
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Imagine a world without computers, cell phones or all modern electronics. This would be a world without John Bardeen. In 1947, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain invented the transistor which amplifies…
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A Brilliant Idea_ Nick Holonyak, Jr. and the LED
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Nick Holonyak Jr., John Bardeen's first graduate student at Illinois, invented the first practical Light-Emitting Diode (LED) at General Electric before returning in 1963 to Illinois as a…
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Imagine a world without computers, cell phones or all modern electronics. This would be a world without John Bardeen. In 1947, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain invented the transistor which amplifies…
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