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  1. 1925- . Japanese physicist who in 1957
  2. noticed that electrons could sometimes
  3. `tunnel' through the barrier formed at the
  4. junctions of certain semiconductors. The
  5. effect is now widely used in the electronics
  6. industry. For this early success Esaki shared
  7. the 1973 Nobel Prize for Physics with Brian
  8. Josephson and Ivar Glaever (1929-).
  9.