George Blasse

George Blasse (28 August 1934 – 30 December 2020) was a Dutch chemist.

Gorter at Leiden University with a dissertation titled: Chrystal chemistry and some magnetic properties of mixed metal oxides with spinel structure.

He discovered the phosphor that made white light LEDs possible.

[3] Blasse was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1982.

[8] After his death the ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology had a focus issue in his honor.