In the pic is Professor Nick Holonyak, currently living in an assisted-living home in Illinois. In a recent interview, he hit out at the Nobel committee for awarding the Nobel Prize for Physics to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura. The 85 year-old remarked that his work in the 1960s was equally deserving of the Prize. What did he work on?
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=> Red LED diodes.
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