Takaida-mura, Nakakawachi-gun, Osaka Prefecture, Empire of Japan
Alma mater
Tokyo Imperial University
Known for
Electron tunneling
Esaki diode
Superlattice
Spouses
Masako Araki
(m. 1959–1986)
Masako Kondo
(m. 1986)
Children
3
Awards
Japan Academy Prize (1965)
Nobel Prize in Physics (1973)
IEEE Medal of Honor (1991)
Japan Prize (1998)[1]
Scientific career
Fields
Solid-state physics
Applied physics
Institutions
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Sony
University of Tsukuba
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 phenomenon. This research was done when he was with Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo (now known as Sony). He has also contributed in being a pioneer of the semiconductor superlattices.[1]
Reona Esaki (江崎 玲於奈 Esaki Reona, born March 12, 1925), also known as LeoEsaki, is a Japanese physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with...
It was invented in August 1957 by LeoEsaki when working at Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo, now known as Sony. In 1973, Esaki received the Nobel Prize in Physics...
visitors. LeoEsaki became the president of the University of Tsukuba in 1992. His presidency marked a new era of reform for the Tsukuba Science City. Leo Esaki...
engineer and physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with LeoEsaki and Brian Josephson "for their discoveries regarding tunnelling phenomena...
Esaki (江崎) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: Kazuhito Esaki (born 1986), Japanese football player LeoEsaki (born 1925)...
have won a Nobel Prize in Physics. He shared the prize with physicists LeoEsaki and Ivar Giaever, who jointly received half the award for their own work...
university. Three Nobel Prize laurates have taught at the university, LeoEsaki, Hideki Shirakawa and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga. Apart from them, Satoshi Ōmura...
year; the first Nobel laureate who received the prize from his hands was LeoEsaki. He also hands over the Polar Music Prize. The King holds honorary doctoral...
of science and technology was deemed indispensable for the war effort. LeoEsaki, who was a student at the department of physics during the war, shared...
April 2022 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org Nomination archive – LeoEsaki Archived 13 March 2023 at the Wayback Machine nobelprize.org Nomination...
Dennis Lotis, South African-English singer and actor (d. 2023) March 12 LeoEsaki, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate G. William Whitehurst...
throughout IBM. Original members of the IBM Academy of Technology include LeoEsaki, Gerd Binnig, Benoit Mandelbrot, Rolf Landauer, Jim Gray, Lubomyr Romankiw...
BCS-theory" Leon Cooper (b. 1930) John Robert Schrieffer (1931–2019) 1973 LeoEsaki (b. 1925) Japan "for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling...
for the achievement. Five IBM employees have received the Nobel Prize: LeoEsaki, of the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., in...
worked better. The tunnel diode invented in 1957 by Japanese physicist LeoEsaki could produce a few milliwatts of microwave power. Its invention set off...
the Nobel archives of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences” “Data of LeoEsaki (id 14575) have been hidden at the Nomination Archive site according to...
laureates' contributions, the bronze statues of Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, LeoEsaki, and Makoto Kobayashi was set up in the Central Park of Azuma 2 in Tsukuba...
Austria-Hungary (1848–1919) Frederick J. Ernst – United States (born 1933) LeoEsaki – Japan (born 1925) Nobel laureate Ernest Esclangon – France (1876–1954)...
Instruments. In 1957, Sony employee LeoEsaki and his colleagues invented a tunnel diode (usually referred to as Esaki diode) by which they discovered the...
(quantum tunnelling) in the 1950s. The tunnel diode (Esaki diode) was invented in August 1957 by LeoEsaki, Yuriko Kurose and Takashi Suzuki when they were...
Rodney Robert Porter Heinrich Böll None John Hicks; Kenneth Arrow 1973 LeoEsaki; Ivar Giaever; Brian Josephson Ernst Otto Fischer; Geoffrey Wilkinson...
Gerhard Ertl Chemistry 2007 Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society LeoEsaki Physics 1973 Thomas J. Watson Research Center Ulf von Euler Physiology...
rediscovered with the invention of the tunnel diode in 1957, for which LeoEsaki won the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics. Today, negative resistance diodes...
Chinese Nobel laureate 1965 Shin'ichiro Tomonaga Japan Physics 1973 LeoEsaki Japan Physics 1976 Samuel C. C. Ting United States Physics Dual-citizen...
language in 1932 when it was used by Yakov Frenkel in his textbook. In 1957 LeoEsaki demonstrated tunneling of electrons over a few nanometer wide barrier...
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