Leo Esaki
Japanese physicist
Reona Esaki, 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... Wikipedia
Born: 1925 (age 99 years), Takaida, Higashiosaka, Osaka, Japan
Books: Two Public Lectures
Awards: IEEE Medal of Honor, Nobel Prize in Physics, Asahi Prize, and more
Known for: Electron tunneling; Esaki diode; Superlattice
Education: University of Tokyo (1959), University of Tokyo (1947), and Kyoto Municipal Daiyon Kinrin Elementary School
Children: 3