1928 - 2022
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, Nick Holonyak ranks 363 out of 717. Before 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.
1950 - Present
HPI: 56.05
Rank: 357
1880 - 1960
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 358
1894 - 1977
HPI: 55.99
Rank: 359
1863 - 1906
HPI: 55.97
Rank: 360
1910 - 1946
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 361
1918 - 2001
HPI: 55.94
Rank: 362
1928 - 2022
HPI: 55.93
Rank: 363
1803 - 1879
HPI: 55.82
Rank: 364
1900 - 1988
HPI: 55.81
Rank: 365
1798 - 1895
HPI: 55.74
Rank: 366
1855 - 1938
HPI: 55.71
Rank: 367
1921 - 2007
HPI: 55.70
Rank: 368
1901 - 1967
HPI: 55.67
Rank: 369
Among people born in 1928, Nick Holonyak ranks 143. Before 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 114. Before 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.
1928 - 2013
HPI: 56.21
Rank: 137
1928 - 1994
HPI: 56.19
Rank: 138
1928 - 2021
HPI: 56.05
Rank: 139
1928 - Present
HPI: 56.01
Rank: 140
1928 - 2020
HPI: 56.00
Rank: 141
1928 - 2023
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 142
1928 - 2022
HPI: 55.93
Rank: 143
1928 - 2011
HPI: 55.91
Rank: 144
1928 - 2012
HPI: 55.88
Rank: 145
1928 - 2014
HPI: 55.86
Rank: 146
1928 - 1975
HPI: 55.83
Rank: 147
1928 - 1983
HPI: 55.82
Rank: 148
1928 - 2013
HPI: 55.76
Rank: 149
1929 - 2022
HPI: 56.54
Rank: 108
1945 - 2022
HPI: 56.36
Rank: 109
1984 - 2022
HPI: 56.17
Rank: 110
1949 - 2022
HPI: 56.17
Rank: 111
1969 - 2022
HPI: 56.14
Rank: 112
1942 - 2022
HPI: 56.13
Rank: 113
1928 - 2022
HPI: 55.93
Rank: 114
1942 - 2022
HPI: 55.84
Rank: 115
1938 - 2022
HPI: 55.83
Rank: 116
1928 - 2022
HPI: 55.68
Rank: 117
1935 - 2022
HPI: 55.57
Rank: 118
1936 - 2022
HPI: 55.56
Rank: 119
1939 - 2022
HPI: 55.49
Rank: 120
Among people born in United States, Nick Holonyak ranks 2,382 out of 18,182. Before 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).
1862 - 1947
HPI: 55.95
Rank: 2,376
1957 - Present
HPI: 55.95
Rank: 2,377
1930 - 1994
HPI: 55.94
Rank: 2,378
1975 - Present
HPI: 55.94
Rank: 2,379
1923 - 1968
HPI: 55.94
Rank: 2,380
1893 - 1988
HPI: 55.93
Rank: 2,381
1928 - 2022
HPI: 55.93
Rank: 2,382
1918 - 2002
HPI: 55.92
Rank: 2,383
1886 - 1950
HPI: 55.91
Rank: 2,384
1897 - 1975
HPI: 55.91
Rank: 2,385
1950 - Present
HPI: 55.88
Rank: 2,386
1945 - 1999
HPI: 55.88
Rank: 2,387
1897 - 1953
HPI: 55.88
Rank: 2,388
Among physicists born in United States, Nick Holonyak ranks 73. Before 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).
1951 - Present
HPI: 57.60
Rank: 67
1905 - 1950
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 68
1891 - 1967
HPI: 56.74
Rank: 69
1951 - Present
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 70
1911 - 1988
HPI: 56.09
Rank: 71
1950 - Present
HPI: 56.05
Rank: 72
1928 - 2022
HPI: 55.93
Rank: 73
1855 - 1938
HPI: 55.71
Rank: 74
1921 - 2007
HPI: 55.70
Rank: 75
1901 - 1967
HPI: 55.67
Rank: 76
1951 - Present
HPI: 55.64
Rank: 77
1909 - 1991
HPI: 55.39
Rank: 78
1868 - 1955
HPI: 55.19
Rank: 79