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Leo Esaki is a Japanese physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics 1973 for his experimental discoveries on tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors. He also shared the award with Ivar Giaever and Brian David Josephson for their contributions to quantum physics. Learn more about his life, work and achievements on this web page.

Leo Esaki is a Japanese physicist who discovered the Esaki tunnel diode and pioneered the design of semiconductor quantum structures. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 for his pioneering work on electron tunneling in solids and superlattices, and has also won many other awards and honors.

Esaki, Leo (1925– ) Japanese physicist, who developed the tunnel diode, a semiconductor that allows electrons to cross normally impassable electronic barriers. US physicist Ivar Giaever extended Esaki's research to the field of superconductivity.

Leo Esaki. Nobel Prize in Physics 1973 together with Ivar Giaeverand Brian D. Josephson. "for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively. Reiona ‘Leo’ Esaki was born in Osaka, Japan, on 12 March, 1925, in the final stages of the Taishō period, during which Japan ...

Physics The Nobel Prize in Physics 1973 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1973 Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. Leo Esaki Prize share: 1/4 Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. Ivar Giaever Prize share: 1/4 Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. Brian David Josephson Prize share: 1/2

For the development of the tunnel diode and the discovery and utilization of quantum-mechanical tunneling in semiconductors. Leo Esaki was born in 1925 in Osaka, Japan. He studied physics at the University of Tokyo, and decided to engage in industrial research in order to help rebuild post-war Japan. He took at position at Sony Corporation, and ...