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Nobel Prize for Electron Tunnelling

Japan · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1973

Leo EsakiDecember 1973

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for experimental discoveries concerning tunnelling in semiconductors.

Names involved

Leo Esaki

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