He invented a visible red-light diode. His 41 patents also included lasers that enabled DVD and CD players. By Sam Roberts Nick Holonyak Jr., an electrical engineer who became known as the ...

after Nick Jr ordered 20 new episodes of the series ... will also be the subject of an accompanying online game, live theatre tour and DVD deal. Nickelodeon Home Entertainment and Paramount Home ...

Nick Holonyak Jr., whose development in 1962 of the first practical visible-spectrum light-emitting diode, or LED, proved a breakthrough that now has countless practical applications, including ...