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Leo Esaki — Age, Birthday & Biography

Born: 12 March 1925 · Age: 101

How old is Leo Esaki?

Leo Esaki is 101 years old as of October 2026. He was born on 12 March 1925.

Nobel Prize-winning physicist who invented the tunnel diode

Did you know?He moved to the United States in 1960 to work for IBM, where he conducted much of his pioneering research into semiconductors.

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.

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