White House to award 3 LED scientists

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http://www.news-gazette.com/story.cfm?Number=14770

"A University of Illinois professor and two of his former students will be among 16 researchers presented National Medals of Science and National Medals of Technology next month.
President Bush on Wednesday announced the winners of the nation's highest honors in science and technology, including UI Professor Nick Holonyak. The medals are to be awarded on Nov. 6 at a White House ceremony.
In addition to Holonyak, the technology medal winners include George Craford of LumiLeds Lighting, San Jose, Calif., and Russell Dupuis, Georgia Institute of Technology, both former graduate students of Holonyak at the UI, with whom he still collaborates.
Holonyak, inventor of the first practical light-emitting diode and the first semiconductor laser in the visible spectrum, received the National Medal of Science in 1990 from Bush's father, then the president...."

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http://www.smalltimes.com/document_d...cument_id=6877

Nov. 3, 2003 - When Thomas Alva Edison perfected the light bulb in 1879, no one knew his achievement would illuminate the 20th century.

A hundred years later, when Russell Dean Dupuis perfected an obscure process called "epitaxial growth by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition" to boost the light output of a semiconductor, it didn't make much of a stir either. Until lately, scant notice was taken of the technology, which could, within a few decades, make the light bulb obsolete.