On Tuesday, October 14, 2014 8:45:42 PM UTC-7, 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.
The interview I read was with Nick Holonyak who made the first visible red LED. I think the key scientific breakthrough came earlier with the GaAs infrared LED which showed the importance of the direct band gap and the use of III-V compound semiconductors.