Holonyak, now a professor of electrical and computer engineering and physics at the University of Illinois, said he suspected that LEDs would become as commonplace as they are today, but didnt realize how many uses they would have.
You dont know in the beginning.YOU think youre doing something important.you think its worth doing, but you really cant tell what the big payoff is going to be, and when, and how.You just dont know, he said.
The Lemelson-MIT Program also recognized Edith Flanigen, 75, with the $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement Award for her work on a new generation of molecular sieves, that can separate molecules by size.
当Nick Holonyak着手用半导体合金创造一种新的可视照明设备的时候,同事们都认为他不现实。今天,他发现的发光二极管,或叫LED,使用范围覆盖从DVD到机场警钟的一切东西。他的许多学生继续着他的工作,发明了交通灯中使用的照明设备和其他的日用技术。
2004年4月23号,Holonyak在华盛顿的一次典礼上被授予麻省理工Lemelson项目的50万美元的奖金。这是麻省理工的LemelsonMIT项目第十年颁奖给杰出的发明人。
任何时候你得了奖,不论是大是小,总是一分惊喜,Holonyak说。
Holonyak,75岁,是上世纪50年代初期晶体管的发明者John Bardeen的学生。从研究生院毕业之后,Holonyak在Bell实验室工作。之后去了通用电器公司,在那里他发明了一种开关,现在在家用减光开关中普遍使用。
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