Esaki

American

[ih-sah-kee] / ɪˈsɑ ki /

noun

Leo, born 1925, Japanese physicist, in the U.S. since 1960: Nobel Prize 1973.

Esaki Scientific

/ ĭ-sä′kē /

Japanese physicist who developed a very fast and very small type of diode that is now widely used in many electronic devices, especially computers and microwave devices.

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The Forza series aims to realistically simulate real-world driving, and creative director Chris Esaki tells BBC Newsbeat advances in mimicking weather have helped.

From BBC • Dec. 1, 2023

In 1957 Esaki, then a young researcher with the Sony Corp. in Tokyo, was working on semiconductors�crystalline substances that ordinarily are poor conductors of electricity unless impurities are added to them.

From Time Magazine Archive

After experimenting with various chemicals, Esaki was able to produce a sample with which he demonstrated that tunneling can occur in semiconductors�something that had been suspected but never proved.

From Time Magazine Archive

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