PHYSICIST

Leo Esaki

1925 - Today

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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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leo Esaki has received more than 356,090 page views. His biography is available in 70 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). Leo Esaki is the 276th most popular physicist, the 202nd most popular biography from Japan (up from 225th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Japanese Physicist.

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

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Leo Esaki ranks 276 out of 851. Before him are Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, Hugh David Politzer, Johannes Rydberg, Edmond Becquerel, August Kundt, and Carlo Rubbia. After him are Ernest Walton, Toshihide Maskawa, Antoine César Becquerel, Carl von Linde, Osborne Reynolds, and Victor Weisskopf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Leo Esaki ranks 71. Before him are Celia Cruz, Hildegard Knef, David Elazar, Michele Ferrero, William Styron, and Moshe Arens. After him are Veljko Kadijević, Robert Rauschenberg, Dick Van Dyke, Oscar Peterson, Ernest Gellner, and Hilda Gadea.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Leo Esaki ranks 202 out of 6,245. Before him are Nogi Maresuke (1849), Mori Ōgai (1862), Hiroaki Sato (1932), Emperor Go-Horikawa (1212), Shoichi Yokoi (1915), and Empress Genshō (680). After him are Yukio Hatoyama (1947), Emperor Buretsu (489), Shūsaku Endō (1923), Emperor Richū (336), Leiji Matsumoto (1938), and Yozo Aoki (1929).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Japan

Among physicists born in Japan, Leo Esaki ranks 8. Before him are Hideki Yukawa (1907), Shin'ichirō Tomonaga (1906), Yoichiro Nambu (1921), Makoto Kobayashi (1944), Masatoshi Koshiba (1926), and Syukuro Manabe (1931). After him are Toshihide Maskawa (1940), Shuji Nakamura (1954), Yoshio Nishina (1890), Hiroshi Amano (1960), Takaaki Kajita (1959), and Hantaro Nagaoka (1865).

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