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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 307,658 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Nick Holonyak is the 363rd most popular physicist (up from 383rd in 2019), the 2,382nd most popular biography from United States (up from 2,710th in 2019) and the 73rd most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Nick Holonyak ranks 363 out of 717Before him are Robert B. Laughlin, Abram Ioffe, Oskar Klein, Paul Drude, Louis Slotin, and Anna Mani. After him are Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, George Uhlenbeck, Franz Ernst Neumann, Edwin Hall, Ralph Asher Alpher, and Robert J. Van de Graaff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Nick Holonyak ranks 143Before him are Seki Matsunaga, Donald Judd, Enrique Bolaños, Yaacov Agam, Jean Kennedy Smith, and Federico Bahamontes. After him are Juan María Bordaberry, Vidal Sassoon, Lorna Wing, Cannonball Adderley, László Budai, and Ali Kafi. Among people deceased in 2022, Nick Holonyak ranks 114Before him are George Crumb, Catherine Spaak, Gaspard Ulliel, Patrick Tambay, Siniša Mihajlović, and Fred Ward. After him are Evaristo Carvalho, Hermann Nitsch, Joseph Kittinger, Paula Rego, A. B. Yehoshua, and Paul Sorvino.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Nick Holonyak ranks 2,382 out of 18,182Before him are Nicholas Murray Butler (1862), Bruce Beutler (1957), Dick Sargent (1930), Casey Affleck (1975), Wes Montgomery (1923), and Henry Murray (1893). After him are Thomas Gordon (1918), Henry H. Arnold (1886), Fredric March (1897), Joe Perry (1950), Brion James (1945), and Herman J. Mankiewicz (1897).

Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Nick Holonyak ranks 73Before him are Frank Wilczek (1951), Karl Guthe Jansky (1905), Walter A. Shewhart (1891), Edward Witten (1951), Luis Walter Alvarez (1911), and Robert B. Laughlin (1950). After him are Edwin Hall (1855), Ralph Asher Alpher (1921), Robert J. Van de Graaff (1901), Carl Wieman (1951), Edwin H. Land (1909), and Robert W. Wood (1868).