41. HowStuffWorks "Esaki, Leo" Leo Esaki (ehs ah kee), a Japanese physicist, shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery of an electronic phenomenon known as tunneling. His discovery led to the http://science.howstuffworks.com/dictionary/famous-scientists/physicists/leo-esa

HSW.sm.loadPageInfo(530330); OAS_AD('TopBanner'); HowStuffWorks Search HowStuffWorks and the web Video Podcasts Blogs Quizzes Games RSS Adventure Animals Auto Culture ... Physicists Leo Esaki Print Cite Feedback E-mail This ... Recommend Cite This! Close Please copy/paste the following text to properly cite this HowStuffWorks article: Esaki, Leo (1925-), a Japanese physicist, shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery of an electronic phenomenon known as tunneling. His discovery led to the creation of a device known as the Esaki diode, or tunnel diode, which has practical applications in high-speed electronic circuits. The tunneling effect is widely used in the electronics industry. Tunneling is a means by which electric current flows at a higher rate than predicted by what are known as classical theories of physics, which treat electrons as though they were particles. But according to quantum mechanics, electrons have characteristics of waves as well as particles. Wave equations of quantum mechanics show how tunneling can occur.

42. The Vega Science Trust - Leo Esaki - Science Video Interview Leo Esaki is a Japanese physicist who shared half the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Ivar Giaever for the discovery of the phenomenon of electron tunneling. The second half of http://www.vega.org.uk/video/programme/28

43. IBM Archives: 1973 IBM Archives Exhibits Hystory of IBM 1970s 1973 The IBM 3340 disk unit known as Winchester after IBM's internal project name is introduced, an advanced technology which http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/history/year_1973.html

Skip to main content United States change Home Solutions Services ... Terms and conditions Related links Interactive history of progress A tradition of service Just the facts IBM Archives ... Timeline The IBM 3340 disk unit known as "Winchester" after IBM's internal project name is introduced, an advanced technology which more than doubled the information density on disk surfaces. It featured a smaller, lighter read/write head that was designed to ride on an air film only 18 millionths of an inch thick. Winchester technology was adopted by the industry and used for the next two decades. Dr. Leo Esaki, an IBM Fellow who joined the company in 1960, shares the 1973 Nobel Prize in physics for his 1958 discovery of the phenomenon of electron tunneling. His discovery of the semiconductor junction called the Esaki diode finds wide use in electronics applications. More importantly, his work in the field of semiconductors lays a foundation for further exploration in the electronic transport of solids. Litigation between Control Data Corporation (CDC) and IBM in Federal District Court is dismissed pursuant to an out-of-court settlement that includes sale of the Service Bureau Corporation to CDC.

44. Leo Esaki Dictionary Definition - Glossary.com Esaki, Leo Esaki (physicist honored for advances in solid state electronics (born in Japan in 1925)) http://www.glossary.com/dictionary.php?q=Leo Esaki

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