Leo Esaki Election Year 2008 (Tsukuba Office)
Tsukuba International Congress Center
2-20-3 Takezono, Tsukuba
Ibaraki 305-0032, Japan Tel: (Tsukuba)(8129) 861-1200 / Fax: (Tsukuba)(8129) 861-1209
Current Positions
Chairman, the S & T Promotion Foundation of Ibaraki, Tsukuba
Education
B.S. in Physics, The University of Tokyo (1947)
Ph. D. in Physics, The University of Tokyo (1959)
Professional Experience
Kobe Kogyo Corporation, Kobe, Japan (1947-1956)
Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo (Sony Corporation presently), Tokyo, Japan (1956-1960)
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York, U.S.A. (1960-1992)
President, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan (1992-1998)
Chairman, the S & T Promotion Foundation of Ibaraki, Tsukuba (1998-)
Director-General, Tsukuba International Congress Center (1999-)
President, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan (2000-2005)
President, Yokohama College of Pharmacy, Yokohama, Japan (2006-2023.3)
Specialties
Physics
Awards and Honors
Nishina Memorial Award (1959)
Asahi Press Award (1960)
Tokyo Rayon Foundation Award (1960)
Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Prize from IRE (1961)
Stuart Ballantine Medal from Franklin Inst. (1961)
Japan Academy Award (1965)
Nobel Prize in Physics (1973)
The Order of Culture from Japanese Government (1974)
APS International Prize for New Materials (1985)
IEEE Medal of Honor (1991)
Japan Prize (1998)
The Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun, First Class from Japanese
Celebrated Member of IEEE Election Device Society (2012)