| Date of Birth | 12-March-1925 | |
| Place of Birth |
Osaka (Japan, Osaka Prefecture) |
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| Nationality | Japan | |
| Also know as | Leona Esaki | |
| Profession | Physicist | |
| 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 discovery of the phenomenon of electron tunneling. He is known for his invention of the Esaki diode, which exploited that phenomenon. This research was done when he was with Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo. He has also contributed in being a pioneer of the semiconductor superlattice while he was with IBM. | ||
Awards by Leo Esaki |
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| Check all the awards nominated and won by Leo Esaki. | ||
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1973
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