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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1973

"for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively"
"for his theoretical predictions of the properties of a supercurrent through a tunnel barrier, in particular those phenomena which are generally known as the Josephson effects"
Leo Esaki Ivar Giaever Brian David Josephson
Leo Esaki Ivar Giaever Brian David Josephson
quarter 1/4 of the prize quarter 1/4 of the prize half 1/2 of the prize
Japan USA United Kingdom
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Yorktown Heights, NY, USA		 General Electric Company
Schenectady, NY, USA		 University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom
b. 1925 b. 1929
(in Bergen, Norway)		 b. 1940
 
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