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Esaki Leona (also known as Leo Esaki) is a Japanese physicist who won the
Nobel prize in Physics in 1973. He is known for his invention of the Esaki
diode.
He was born in Osaka, Japan on March 12, 1925. He received his B.S. in
1947 and his Ph.D. in 1959, both in physics and from Tokyo University. His
Nobel prize was awarded for research he had conducted around 1958 regarding
electron tunneling in solids. He moved to the United States in 1960 and
joined the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, where he became an IBM Fellow
in 1967.
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