Nick Holonyak

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What Wikipedia says

Nick Holonyak Jr. (November 3, 1928 – September 18, 2022) was an American electrical engineer. He is noted particularly for his 1962 invention and first demonstration of a semiconductor laser diode that emitted visible light.

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