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Leo Esaki

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Leo Esaki, born in 1925, is a Japanese physicist. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ivar Giaever and Brian Josephson for his work on electron tunneling in semiconductors, discovered while he was employed at Sony, which led him to invent the tunnel diode. He later became a pioneer of semiconductor superlattices and quantum wells.

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Birth Year
1925 1
Nationality
Japan 1
Birthplace
Takaida, Japan 1
Field
Field (category)
Physics 1
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  • P27 (country of citizenship): Japan
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  • P19 (place of birth): Takaida, Japan
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  • Works In: Physics, Infobox, fields
    Infobox fields: Physics
  • Member Of: American Physical Society, Categories
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