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Esaki won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in electron tunneling in solids — research that forever changed the semiconductor industry. By age 48, he was one of the most respected research physicists in the world and a godfather of home computing.
Leo Esaki. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1973. Born: 12 March 1925, Osaka, Japan. Affiliation at the time of the award: IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA. Prize motivation: “for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively” Prize share: 1/4. Work.
The 1973 Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded to Drs. Leo Esaki, Ivar Giaever and Brian Josephson for their discoveries of tunnelling phenomena in solids. The tunnelling phenomena belong to the most direct consequences of the laws of modern physics and have no analogy in classical mechanics.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1973 was divided, one half jointly to Leo Esaki and Ivar Giaever "for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively" and the other half to Brian David Josephson "for his theoretical predictions of the properties of a supercurrent through a tunnel barrier, in particular those phenomena which are ...
Leo Esaki. Nobel Prize in Physics 1973 together with Ivar Giaeverand Brian D. Josephson. "for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively. Reiona ‘Leo’ Esaki was born in Osaka, Japan, on 12 March, 1925, in the final stages of the Taishō period, during which Japan ...
Reona Esaki, also known as Leo Esaki, is a Japanese physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Ivar Giaever and Brian David Josephson for his work in electron tunneling in semiconductor materials which finally led to his invention of the Esaki diode, which exploited that phenomenon.
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May 18, 2018 · Leo Esaki (born 1925) was one of three winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973. Esaki was honored for his 1957 pioneering work in electron tunneling in semiconducting materials, which led to his creation of the Esaki diode, or tunnel diode.
