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Cyril Hilsum
Cyril Hilsum (1925–2026) was a British physicist who led UK research on compound semiconductors and liquid crystal displays, first at SERL and then RSRE Malvern.
Georges Destriau
Georges Destriau (1903–1960) was a French physicist known as the discoverer of electroluminescence in phosphors, a phenomenon long called the "effet Destriau", and later worked at Westinghouse Electric.
Hermann Georg Grimmeiss
Hermann Georg Grimmeiss (born 19 August 1930) was a Swedish semiconductor physicist who led Philips research on efficient gallium phosphide LEDs and became the first professor of solid state physics at Lund.
John R. Haynes
John R. Haynes was a physicist at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, credited with proving that germanium and silicon electroluminescence arises from hole-electron recombination at a p-n junction.
Leigh Canham
Leigh Canham (Leigh Trevor Canham) is a British solid state physicist who showed in 1990 that porous silicon emits visible red light, and later that silicon can be medically biodegradable.
Michael Francis Tompsett
Michael Francis Tompsett is a British-born physicist who invented uncooled thermal imaging, developed CCD cameras at Bell Labs, and holds the first CCD imager patent.