Leo Esaki
1925-
Japanese physicist whose research into quantum mechanical tunneling won the 1973 Nobel Prize for Physics. Tunneling, the process by which electrons (and other particles) can "es...
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Esaki was born in Osaka, Japan, on March 12, 1925. He attended Tokyo University, where he received his master of science degree in 1947 and his Ph.D. in physics in 1959. His first research was conduct...
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Leo Esaki
Leo Esaki