On 10/14/14, 11:45 PM, rbowman wrote:
micky wrote:

Did the inventor of the first (red) LED get a Nobel prize. It seems a
lot harder to invent the first one than the third or fourth.

No, and he's ****ed.

H. J. Round discovered electroluminescence with silicon carbide in 1907.
No practical use was found.

I'm sure the when committee evaluated wrist watches and calculators with
red-led displays, they realized red LED's had no practical use.

The most important part of the Nobel Prize is the banquet. The most
important aspect of the banquet is the color of the lighting. Blue was
what they'd been missing.

Dr. Roland Haitz deserves the prize. His law made it mandatory to double
the light output of LED's every 36 months.