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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 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

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.

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Contemporaries

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.

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In Japan

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).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Japan

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).

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