{"id":14930,"date":"2022-04-09T16:40:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T08:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/?p=14930"},"modified":"2025-01-14T00:20:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T16:20:47","slug":"losev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/losev\/","title":{"rendered":"the Losev problem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/oleg-losev-problem.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/oleg-losev-problem-766x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14931\" width=\"305\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/oleg-losev-problem-766x1024.jpeg 766w, https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/oleg-losev-problem-224x300.jpeg 224w, https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/oleg-losev-problem-768x1027.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/oleg-losev-problem-1148x1536.jpeg 1148w, https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/oleg-losev-problem.jpeg 1315w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in 1903, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oleg_Losev\">Oleg Vladimirovich Losev<\/a> invented LEDs decades before everybody else (in the 1920s). &#8220;Unknown and uncelebrated, this should&#8217;ve been the beginning of the photonic telecommunications revolution.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But nobody cared. He was a lonely, broke self-taught nerd with no co-authors. He wrote to Einstein but didn&#8217;t get a reply. He died of starvation at the siege of Leningrad in 1942, at a sadly young 38 years of age.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1URsFlzlknvmaSunLozmT60N0ZpsqWCQkVY4ygXhe50s\/edit#\">Let\u2019s create an accessible, informal, global nerd network<\/a> that makes it easy for nerds like Losev to reach out to someone and get rerouted to wherever they need to go. If there&#8217;s a 1% shot of finding someone who advances some domain by 20 years, that&#8217;s a gift to humanity, and that&#8217;s worth doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>More about Losev: <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2017\/03\/08\/do-you-know-oleg-losev\/\">An engineer tragically ahead of his time<\/a>, (hackaday.com, 2017)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chemistryworld.com\/opinion\/losevs-diodes\/4013563.article\">Losev&#8217;s diodes<\/a>  (chemistryworld.com, 2021)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ramanujan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Vavilov<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in 1903, Oleg Vladimirovich Losev invented LEDs decades before everybody else (in the 1920s). &#8220;Unknown and uncelebrated, this should&#8217;ve been the beginning of the photonic telecommunications revolution.\u201d But nobody cared. 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