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Leo Esaki is a Japanese physicist born in 1925 who made important contributions to the field of physics. His work has helped advance scientific understanding in ways that have proven significant to the discipline.
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- 1925-03-12
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- 4
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- Large Scale Integrated Circuits Technology
- Large Scale Integrated Circuits Technology : State of the Art and Prospects : Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Large Scale Integrated Circuits Technology
- Large Scale Integrated Circuits Technology: State of the Art and Prospects
- Highlights in Condensed Matter Physics and Future Prospects
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Leo Esaki (born March 12, 1925) is a Japanese solid-state physicist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ivar Giaever and Brian Josephson for his work on tunneling in semiconductors, which led to his invention of the tunnel diode that exploits this phenomenon. His research was done when he was with Sony. He has also contributed in being a pioneer of semiconductor superlattices.
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1925 births20th-century Japanese inventors20th-century Japanese physicistsAcademic staff of Kwansei Gakuin UniversityAcademic staff of Kyoto UniversityAcademic staff of the University of TsukubaFellows of the American Physical SocietyForeign associates of the National Academy of EngineeringForeign associates of the National Academy of SciencesForeign members of the Russian Academy of SciencesGrand Cordons of the Order of the Rising Sun