AKA Esaki Reiona

Born: 12-Mar-1925
Birthplace: Osaka, Japan

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Asian
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist

Nationality: Japan
Executive summary: Electron tunneling

Father: Soichiro Esaki (architect)
Mother: Niyoko Ito
Wife: Masako Araki (m. 1959, two daughters, one son)
Daughter: Nina
Daughter: Anna
Son: Eugene

    University: BS, Tokyo University (1947)
    University: PhD, Tokyo University (1959)
    Professor: Adjunct Professor, Waseda University, Japan

    Nobel Prize for Physics 1973 (with Ivar Giaever and Brian D. Josephson)
    IEEE Medal of Honor 1991
    Japan Prize 1998
    IBM Research Scientist (1960-)
    Sony Chief Physicist (1956-)
    American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1974
    American Philosophical Society 1991

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