Nick Holonyak, Inventor of the LED

Physicist Nick Holonyak built the first LED 50 years ago.

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[ampix0]

Please tell me he is INCREDIBLY rich.

[Kim Nam Phong]

Learn more, do more, build more, review more

Thanks you :)

[TABAGfrancis]

great

[John Whitman]

This guy was John Bardeen's first PhD student at U Illinois.

[desel09]

reveal more bru

[PandaMagicFTW]

Couple hundred nm difference in wavelength but that isn't the important bit. An infra-red LED does not have much general applications because it is invisible, a visible spectrum LED has a massive range of applications.

You have just fallen into the mainstream though of hating America for everything. Think about Lamborghini from Italy. A Nissan GTR can destroy any Lamborghini in a race yet it is 3x cheaper than the cheapest Lamborghini. Your example is not unique to America.

[Hobypyrocom]

you know how much there is a difference in the production of infra red and visible light led's? my point was that Americans make big deal from everything. like they are doing with Apple and other products that are better produced in other countries but American brands focus more on presentations and advertising and sell their products 3-4 times more expensive than others.

[PandaMagicFTW]

That was the problem, it was in the infra-red. His was able to produce light in the visible spectrum.

[goku kakaroto]

señores estafadores de la general electric se apropian de los inventos de las demás personas le robaron patentes a NIKOLA TESLA y a muchos inventores gobiernan el planeta dando factura a casa hogar de nuestro mundo.

[goku kakaroto]

Henry Joseph Round 1907 inventor