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$1 00,000
Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement Award for her work on a new generation ofmolecular sieves,that can separate molecules by size.
词汇:
semiconductor n.半导体
alloy n.合金
diode n.二极管
incandescent adj.白炽的
bulb n.灯泡
commonplace adj.普通的
molecular adj.分子的
sieve n.筛
练习:
1.Holonyaks colleagues thought he would fail in his research on LEDs at the time when he started it.
A.Right B.Wrong C.Not mentioned
2.Holonyak believed that his students that were working with him on the project would get the Lemelson.MIT Prize sooner or later.
A.Right B.Wrong C.Not mentioned
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