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

pharmacologist Pharmacology is a branch of medicine, biology and pharmaceutical sciences concerned with drug or medication action, where a drug may be defined as any artificial, natural, or endogenous (from within the body) molecule which exerts a biochemic ...

. He studied chemiluminescence during the late 1940s - early 1950s, which led him to discover the electroluminescence. He is for this reason considered the father of the

OLED An organic light-emitting diode (OLED or organic LED), also known as organic electroluminescent (organic EL) diode, is a light-emitting diode (LED) in which the emissive electroluminescent layer is a film of organic compound that emits light i ...

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ARTE Arte (; (), sometimes stylized in lowercase or uppercase in its logo) is a European public service channel dedicated to culture. It is made up of three separate companies: the Strasbourg-based European Economic Interest Grouping ARTE, plu ...

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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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