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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nick Holonyak has received more than 331,147 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 27 in 2019). Nick Holonyak is the 401st most popular physicist (down from 363rd in 2019), the 2,644th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,379th in 2019) and the 80th most popular American Physicist.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Nick Holonyak ranks 401 out of 851. Before him are Edward Witten, Takaaki Kajita, Samuel Goudsmit, Hantaro Nagaoka, Chester Carlson, and Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval. After him are Ányos Jedlik, Rudolf Peierls, Walther Gerlach, John Canton, Wander Johannes de Haas, and John Dollond.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Nick Holonyak ranks 170. Before him are Henri Debehogne, Borisav Jović, Kåre Willoch, Fredrik Barth, Walter Tevis, and Dick York. After him are Ali Kafi, Line Renaud, Pavel Kohout, Eddie Fisher, Pancho Gonzales, and Juris Hartmanis. Among people deceased in 2022, Nick Holonyak ranks 137. Before him are Piet Schrijvers, Yuri Averbakh, Fernando Gomes, Kay Parker, Jean-Jacques Beineix, and Joachim Streich. After him are Juris Hartmanis, Reine Wisell, Nichelle Nichols, David Trimble, Leonid Kuravlyov, and Kenneth Tsang.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Nick Holonyak ranks 2,644 out of 20,380. Before him are Jimmie Angel (1899), Lee Haney (1959), Terry Brooks (1944), Channing Tatum (1980), Dick York (1928), and Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919). After him are Charles Martin Hall (1863), Daniel Davis (1945), Linda Gray (1940), G. W. Bailey (1944), Marian Anderson (1897), and J. J. Abrams (1966).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Nick Holonyak ranks 80. Before him are John Mauchly (1907), Nathan Rosen (1909), Ralph Asher Alpher (1921), Robert Brout (1928), Edward Witten (1951), and Chester Carlson (1906). After him are Edwin Hall (1855), Robert Serber (1909), Evelyn Fox Keller (1936), Leonard Susskind (1940), Saul Perlmutter (1959), and Karl Guthe Jansky (1905).

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