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Also Known As barrier penetration • tunnel effect

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Josephson, Brian D.
Brian D. Josephson
British physicist
Ivar Giaever, 1966.
Ivar Giaever
Norwegian-born American physicist
Leo Esaki
Leo Esaki
Japanese physicist