Esaki Leo Japanese Solid State Physicist Born 1925 (1 results)

2.5 x 3.25 inch. Head and shoulders pose signed by the physicist. - Esaki shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ivar Giaever and Brian Josephson for his work on quantum tunnelling in semiconductors, which led to his invention of the tunnel diode that exploits this phenomenon. His research was done when he was with Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo (now Sony). He has also contributed in being a pioneer of the semiconductor superlattices.…