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The Russian who invented semiconductors 25 years before the USA

TIL: The Man Who Invented the Future, Then Starved to Death in It The story of Oleg Losev, LEDs, and a lost manuscript describing a new three-electrode semiconductor device There is a particular kind of tragedy reserved for people who are right too early. Oleg Losev was 18 years old, working as a technician at a Soviet radio lab in Nizhny Novgorod, when he built something in early 1922 that the rest of the world would take another 25 years to catch up to. He would never hold a position...