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Leo Esaki
1973 Physics
* 1925 in Osaka
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 work in electron tunneling in semiconductor materials
which finally led to his invention of the Esaki diode, which
exploited that phenomenon.
2019 J. Giesen