Esaki is currently the oldest Japanese Nobel laureate
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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. He has also contributed in being a pioneer of semiconductor superlattices.
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science · Japanese physicist (born 1925) · physicist · also Leo Esaki, Reona Esaki, Esaki
Born 12 March 1925 · Q179852
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1998· 2 entries
Awarded Order of the Rising Sun, 1st class (1998).
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Awarded Japan Prize (1998).
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1992· 1 entry
Returned to Japan, where he subsequently served as President of the University of Tsukuba until 1998
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1991· 1 entry
Won IEEE Medal of Honor (1991).
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded Harold Pender Award (1989).
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1987· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate from University of Montpellier-II (1987).
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“The original version of the paper was rejected for publication by Physical Review on the referee's unimaginative assertion that it was 'too speculative' and involved 'no new physics.' However, this proposal was quickly accepted by the Army Research Office...”
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1985· 1 entry
Awarded James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials (1985).
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1974· 2 entries
Awarded Person of Cultural Merit (1974).
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Awarded Order of Culture (1974).
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1973· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1973).
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1972· 1 entry
Esaki realized his concept of superlattices in III-V group semiconductors
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1969· 1 entry
Esaki predicted that semiconductor superlattices will be formed to induce a differential negative-resistance effect via an artificially one-dimensional periodic structural changes in semiconductor crystals
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1967· 1 entry
Awarded IBM Fellow (1967).
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1965· 1 entry
Awarded Japan Academy Prize (1965).
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1961· 2 entries
Awarded IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award (1961).
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Won Stuart Ballantine Medal (1961).
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1960· 2 entries
Awarded Fellow of the American Physical Society (1960).
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Esaki moved to the United States to join the Thomas J
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1959· 2 entries
Awarded Asahi Prize (1959).
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Awarded Nishina Memorial Prize (1959).
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1957· 1 entry
Esaki recognized that when the p–n junction width of germanium is thinned, the current–voltage characteristic is dominated by the influence of the tunnel effect
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1947· 1 entry
Joined the Kobe Kogyo Corporation, before becoming chief physicist at Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo (now Sony) in 1956
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1925· 1 entry
Born 1925-03-12.
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