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This Discovery Will Make You See Red

November 17, 2014
Who invented the color red? Well, nobody of course. But in another sense, you might say that Nick Holonyak did in the modern era, when he created the red LED at GE’s labs in 1962. Now, materials scientist Anant Setlur has reinvented the color. Working with a team of researchers at GE Lighting and in Europe, Setlur found and patented a way leading to the perfect red light.
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LED Nobel Illuminates Pioneering GE Research

October 12, 2014
Last October, the biologist and former GE Healthcare chief scientist James Rothman received the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for solving the mystery of how cells shuttle molecules of insulin and other substances to the right place in the body. This year, two other former GE scientists looking for new sources of light, Bob Hall and Nick Holonyak Jr., almost felt the glow of a Nobel themselves.
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Lettuce See the Future: LED Lighting Helps Farming Go High-Tech In Japan

July 10, 2014
Humans have spent the last 10,000 years mastering agriculture. But a freak summer storm or bad drought can still mar many a well-planted harvest. Not anymore, says Japanese plant physiologist Shigeharu Shimamura, who has moved industrial-scale farming indoors thanks to special LED lights developed by GE.
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Tonight Show: Cleveland Turned on World’s Largest Chandelier

May 05, 2014

Cleveland’s historic Playhouse Square turned on the world’s largest permanent outdoor chandelier on Friday. The 20-foot tall stainless steel light piece shimmers with 4,200 crystal pendants and LEDs fixtures drawing just 1,700 watts (the equivalent of 17 standard 100-watt light bulbs.)

The GE Chandelier, as it is called, was designed by Montreal’s Lumid and uses LEDs and light modules built by GE.

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Save Money, Light Better: Walmart Will Switch 100s of Stores to GE LEDs

April 08, 2014

Fifty years ago, physicist Nick Holonyak was tinkering with lasers in his GE lab when he discovered the world’s first light-emitting diode. “We knew what happened and that we had a powerful way of converting electric current directly into light,” Holonyak says. “We had the ultimate lamp.” His team called it “the Magic One.”

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