Leo Esaki, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Leo Esaki

Japanese physicist

Date of Birth: 12-Mar-1925

Place of Birth: Ōsaka, Ōsaka Prefecture, Japan

Profession: physicist

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Leo Esaki

  • Reona Esaki (?? ??? Esaki Reona, born March 12, 1925), 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.
  • This research was done when he was with Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo (now known as Sony).
  • He has also contributed in being a pioneer of the semiconductor superlattices.

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