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The Unsung Inventor Who Chased the LED Rainbow

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Every yellow light-emitting diode you see—that’s George’s work.” His biggest adventure, though, has been some 30 years of research into light-emitting diodes. He had invested several years in that research when Holonyak, a pioneer in visible lasers and light-emitting diodes, left his position at General Electric Co.

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DOE to Award $41.9M in Recovery Funds to Spur Growth of Fuel Cell Markets

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Polyfuel will also conduct a design for manufacturability and assembly review to ensure that the systems meet the cost targets for commercialization. Anheuser-Busch (St. Louis, MO). Plug Power will carry out a three-year project to test its units in residential and light commercial applications in California. Latham, NY).

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DOE awards $100M in 2nd funding round for 32 Energy Frontier Research Centers

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Awards range from $2 million to $4 million per year per center for up to four fiscal years, subject to a progress review in year two. Since their establishment by the Department’s Office of Science, the EFRCs have produced 5,400 peer-reviewed scientific publications and hundreds of inventions at various stages of the patent process.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St. Also in 1974, the Product Review Committee at Xerox head­quarters in Rochester, N.Y., First Steps When Goldman set up PARC, one of his first decisions was to ask George E. Pake, a longtime friend, to run it.

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