Jerry Woodall is an American inventor and scientist best known for his invention of the first commercially viable heterojunction material GaAlAs for red LED

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s used in automobile brake lights and traffic lights, CD and DVD players,TV remote controls and computer networks. He is a recipient of US National Medal of Technology and Innovation for "his pioneeriong role in the research and development of compound semiconductor materials and devices..."

Born in Washington, DC, Woodall received a BS in Metallurgy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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 in 1960 and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University

Cornell University

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in 1982.