Nobel Laureate lectures at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina
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Alexandria, 14 June 2005— The Planetarium Science Center at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina is organizing a lecture by the 1973 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Professor Leo Esaki. The lecture is entitled "The Challenge in Frontiers between Science and Technology" and takes place on 19 June 2005.
Leo Esaki was born in Osaka, Japan in 1925. Studying physics at the University of Tokyo, he received his B.S. in 1947 and his Ph.D. in 1959. He joined Sony Corporation, and it was there in 1957 that he discovered the tunnel diode, the first quantum electron device, for which he received the Nobel Prize. He moved to the United States in 1960 and joined the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, where he became an IBM Fellow in 1967. He is currently director of IBM-Japan, Ltd, as well as the Yamada Science Foundation and the Science and Technology Foundation of Japan. He serves on numerous international scientific advisory boards and committees and is member of a number of distinguished scientific institutions.
Professor Esaki received several awards in recognition of his scientific contributions, chief among which are the Nishina Memorial Award (1959), the Asahi Press Award (1960), the Toyo Rayon Foundation Award for the Promotion of Science and Technology (1960), the Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Prize from IRE (1961), the Stuart Ballantine Medal from the Franklin Institute (1961), the Japan Academy Award (1965) University of Athens, Greece.
The lecture takes place at the Great Hall, BA Conference Center, at 11:00 am.