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Leo Esaki
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Person

Leo Esaki

b. 1925

Japanese physicist (1925-)

Born
12 Mar 1925 · Takaida
Part ofJapan230 BCE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 116 years
  1. 12 Mar 1925BornBorn in Takaida
  2. 1959AwardAsahi Prize
  3. 1959AwardNishina Memorial Prize
  4. 1960AwardFellow of the American Physical Society
  5. 1961AwardIEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award
  6. 1961AwardStuart Ballantine Medal
  7. 1965AwardJapan Academy Prize
  8. 1967AwardIBM Fellow
  9. 1973AwardNobel Prize in Physics
  10. 1974AwardOrder of Culture
  11. 1974AwardPerson of Cultural Merit
  12. 1985AwardJames C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials
  13. 1987AwardHonorary doctorate from University of Montpellier-II

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1925 – today).

  1. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  2. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  3. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  4. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  5. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1938Munich Agreement
  7. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  8. 1939 – 1945World War II
  9. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  10. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  11. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  12. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  13. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  14. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  15. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  16. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  18. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  19. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  21. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  22. 1956Suez Crisis
  23. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  25. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  27. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  29. 1968Prague Spring
  30. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  31. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  32. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  33. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  35. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  36. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  37. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  38. 1985Schengen Agreement
  39. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  40. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall

Biography

Leo Esaki (江崎 玲於奈, Esaki Reona; born March 12, 1925) is a Japanese physicist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ivar Giaever and Brian Josephson for his work on tunneling in semiconductors, which led to his invention of the tunnel diode that exploits this phenomenon. His research was done when he was with Sony. He has also contributed in being a pioneer of semiconductor superlattices.

Since the death of Yoichiro Nambu in 2015, Esaki is the oldest living Japanese Nobel laureate.

Text from the Wikipedia article Leo Esaki, CC BY-SA 4.0

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