André Bernanose (17 June 1912 – 18 March 2002) was a 20th-century French physicist, chemist and pharmacologist. He studied

chemiluminescence Chemiluminescence (also chemoluminescence) is the emission of light (luminescence) as the result of a chemical reaction. There may also be limited emission of heat. Given reactants A and B, with an excited intermediate ◊, : + -> lozenge -> ...

during the late 1940s - early 1950s, which led him to discover the

electroluminescence Electroluminescence (EL) is an optical phenomenon, optical and electrical phenomenon, in which a material emits light in response to the passage of an electric current or to a strong electric field. This is distinct from black body light emissi ...

. He is for this reason considered the father of the OLED.

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''OLED, la lumière organique''
on ARTE
The OLED
on Megatech {{DEFAULTSORT:Bernanose, Andre French pharmacologists 1912 births 2002 deaths Scientists from Nancy, France 20th-century French chemists 20th-century French physicists

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