Nobel Prize in physics, 1973
firstname: Leo
surname: Esaki
motivation: "for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively"
firstname: Ivar
surname: Giaever
motivation: "for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively"
firstname: Brian D.
surname: Josephson
motivation: "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"