# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nick-holonyak
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:28:46.470Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/nick-holonyak"
name: "Nick Holonyak"
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description: "Nick Holonyak Jr. was an American electronics engineer. He is noted particularly for his 1962 invention and first demonstration of a semiconductor laser diode that emitted visible light. This device was the forerunner of the first generation of commercial light-emitting diodes (LEDs). He was then working at a General Electric research laboratory near Syracuse, New York. He left General Electric in 1963 and returned to his alma mater, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he later became John Bardeen Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics."
tagline: "American physicist (1928–2022)"
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country:
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birthDate: "1928-11-03"
deathDate: "2022-09-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump