Many people believe that the LED was discovered by US researchers working in the 1960s. In fact, Henry Round at Marconi Labs noted the emission of light from a semiconductor diode 100 years ago and, independently, a forgotten Russian genius — Oleg Losev — discovered the LED.
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Zheludev, N. The life and times of the LED — a 100-year history. Nature Photon 1, 189–192 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2007.34
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