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Reona Esaki (江崎 玲於奈 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 ...
By age 48, he was one of the most respected research physicists in the world and a godfather of home computing. The discoveries he made during his 32-year tenure at IBM touched off a wave of miniaturization that provided the foundation for the computers and handheld electronics we rely on so heavily today.
Leo Esaki (born March 12, 1925, Ōsaka, Japan) is a Japanese solid-state physicist and researcher in superconductivity who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1973 with Ivar Giaever and Brian Josephson.
Dr. Esaki is a Director of IBM-Japan, Ltd., on the Governing Board of the IBM-Tokyo Research Laboratory, a Director of the Yamada Science Foundation and the Science and Technology Foundation of Japan. He serves on numerous international scientific advisory boards and committees, and is an Adjunct Professor of Waseda University, Japan.
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.
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.
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 ...
Leo Esaki was born Esaki Reiona in Osaka, Japan, in 1925. He anglicised his name when he joined IBM in America in 1960, although he retained his Japanese citizenship. He was educated at the University of Tokyo, where he received his bachelor’s degree in physics in 1947.
Leo Esaki was born on 12 March 1925 in Osaka, Japan. He is one of only three Japanese physicists ever to receive the Nobel Prize.
