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Leo Esaki

1925 - Today

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Leo Esaki ( ih-SAH-kee; Japanese: 江崎 玲於奈, romanized: Esaki Reona; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leo Esaki is the 236th most popular physicist (up from 277th in 2019), the 108th most popular biography from Japan (up from 202nd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Japanese Physicist.

Leo Esaki is most famous for his invention of the Esaki Diode in 1959.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Leo Esaki ranks 236 out of 851. Before him are Edme Mariotte, Robert Hofstadter, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Jacques Charles, Victor Weisskopf, and Tsung-Dao Lee. After him are Vitaly Ginzburg, Nikolay Basov, Arthur Ashkin, Willard Boyle, John Cockcroft, and Gérard Mourou.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Leo Esaki ranks 53. Before him are Luciano Berio, Dick Van Dyke, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, William F. Buckley Jr., George Kennedy, and Robert Altman. After him are Baruch Samuel Blumberg, Maya Plisetskaya, Bülent Ecevit, Sam Peckinpah, Paul Mauriat, and Milton Obote.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Leo Esaki ranks 108 out of 6,245. Before him are Himiko (175), Tadamichi Kuribayashi (1891), Fumio Kishida (1957), Kiichiro Toyoda (1894), Emperor Sakuramachi (1720), and Emperor Nakamikado (1702). After him are Shigeru Ishiba (1957), Emperor Higashiyama (1675), Tameo Ide (1908), Chiune Sugihara (1900), Hasekura Tsunenaga (1571), and Joan Fontaine (1917).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Japan

Among physicists born in Japan, Leo Esaki ranks 6. Before him are Hideki Yukawa (1907), Isamu Akasaki (1929), Shin'ichirō Tomonaga (1906), Yoichiro Nambu (1921), and Makoto Kobayashi (1944). After him are Toshihide Maskawa (1940), Masatoshi Koshiba (1926), Syukuro Manabe (1931), Shuji Nakamura (1954), Hiroshi Amano (1960), and Takaaki Kajita (1959).

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