Leo Esaki

Leo Esaki is a Japanese 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.

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Who was born first?

• Leo Esaki and Robert Edwards were born the same year
• Leo Esaki and Baruch Samuel Blumberg were born the same year
• Leo Esaki and Paul Wild were born the same year
• Leo Esaki and Frank Kameny were born the same year
• Leo Esaki and Martin David Kruskal were born the same year

Timeline

1. Baruch Samuel BlumbergJuly 28, 1925 – April 5, 2011
2. Frank KamenyMay 21, 1925 – October 11, 2011
3. Leo Esaki (this page)March 12, 1925 – present
4. Martin David KruskalSeptember 28, 1925 – December 26, 2006
5. Paul WildOctober 5, 1925 – July 2, 2014
6. Robert EdwardsSeptember 27, 1925 – April 10, 2013

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