1925 - Today
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 338,474 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia. Leo Esaki is the 276th most popular physicist (down from 244th in 2019), the 227th most popular biography from Japan (down from 169th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Japanese Physicist.
Leo Esaki is most famous for his invention of the Esaki Diode in 1959.
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Among physicists, Leo Esaki ranks 276 out of 717. Before him are Douglas Osheroff, Andre Geim, Brian Josephson, John Tyndall, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, and Masatoshi Koshiba. After him are Zhores Alferov, Otto Robert Frisch, Jan Ingenhousz, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Antoine César Becquerel, and Giovanni Battista Venturi.
1945 - Present
HPI: 60.15
Rank: 270
1958 - Present
HPI: 60.11
Rank: 271
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.07
Rank: 272
1820 - 1893
HPI: 60.03
Rank: 273
1754 - 1785
HPI: 59.99
Rank: 274
1926 - 2020
HPI: 59.97
Rank: 275
1925 - Present
HPI: 59.94
Rank: 276
1930 - 2019
HPI: 59.92
Rank: 277
1904 - 1979
HPI: 59.85
Rank: 278
1730 - 1799
HPI: 59.80
Rank: 279
1912 - 2007
HPI: 59.79
Rank: 280
1788 - 1878
HPI: 59.76
Rank: 281
1746 - 1822
HPI: 59.64
Rank: 282
Among people born in 1925, Leo Esaki ranks 78. Before him are Bill Haley, Robert Rauschenberg, Ernest Gellner, Michel de Certeau, Harry Harrison, and Joshua Lederberg. After him are John DeLorean, Gabriele Amorth, Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen, José Freire Falcão, Charles Chaplin Jr., and John Pople.
1925 - 1981
HPI: 60.66
Rank: 72
1925 - 2008
HPI: 60.56
Rank: 73
1925 - 1995
HPI: 60.50
Rank: 74
1925 - 1986
HPI: 60.23
Rank: 75
1925 - 2012
HPI: 60.16
Rank: 76
1925 - 2008
HPI: 60.06
Rank: 77
1925 - Present
HPI: 59.94
Rank: 78
1925 - 2005
HPI: 59.78
Rank: 79
1925 - 2016
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 80
1925 - 2010
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 81
1925 - 2021
HPI: 59.48
Rank: 82
1925 - 1968
HPI: 59.46
Rank: 83
1925 - 2004
HPI: 59.45
Rank: 84
Among people born in Japan, Leo Esaki ranks 227 out of 6,048. Before him are Eiji Yoshikawa (1892), Kitasato Shibasaburō (1853), Emperor Senka (467), Emperor Hanzei (336), Masatoshi Koshiba (1926), and Ōkubo Toshimichi (1830). After him are Emperor Seinei (444), Shunichi Kumai (1910), Shunroku Hata (1879), Nogi Maresuke (1849), Go Nagai (1945), and Hiroshi Yamauchi (1927).
1892 - 1962
HPI: 60.06
Rank: 221
1853 - 1931
HPI: 59.98
Rank: 222
467 - 539
HPI: 59.97
Rank: 223
336 - 410
HPI: 59.97
Rank: 224
1926 - 2020
HPI: 59.97
Rank: 225
1830 - 1878
HPI: 59.95
Rank: 226
1925 - Present
HPI: 59.94
Rank: 227
444 - 484
HPI: 59.93
Rank: 228
1910 - Present
HPI: 59.90
Rank: 229
1879 - 1962
HPI: 59.90
Rank: 230
1849 - 1912
HPI: 59.89
Rank: 231
1945 - Present
HPI: 59.87
Rank: 232
1927 - 2013
HPI: 59.84
Rank: 233
Among physicists born in Japan, Leo Esaki ranks 7. Before him are Hideki Yukawa (1907), Syukuro Manabe (1931), Isamu Akasaki (1929), Shin'ichirō Tomonaga (1906), Yoichiro Nambu (1921), and Masatoshi Koshiba (1926). After him are Makoto Kobayashi (1944), Toshihide Maskawa (1940), Shuji Nakamura (1954), Hantaro Nagaoka (1865), Yoshio Nishina (1890), and Hiroshi Amano (1960).
1907 - 1981
HPI: 65.56
Rank: 1
1931 - Present
HPI: 64.31
Rank: 2
1929 - 2021
HPI: 62.86
Rank: 3
1906 - 1979
HPI: 62.45
Rank: 4
1921 - 2015
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 5
1926 - 2020
HPI: 59.97
Rank: 6
1925 - Present
HPI: 59.94
Rank: 7
1944 - Present
HPI: 59.32
Rank: 8
1940 - 2021
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 9
1954 - Present
HPI: 56.77
Rank: 10
1865 - 1950
HPI: 54.66
Rank: 11
1890 - 1951
HPI: 53.64
Rank: 12
1960 - Present
HPI: 52.37
Rank: 13