Nick Holonyak, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Nick Holonyak

American inventor

Date of Birth: 03-Nov-1928

Place of Birth: Zeigler, Illinois, United States

Profession: engineer, physicist, inventor, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

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 General Electric'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.