Akira
Tonomura
Year
1999
Subject
Physics
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Advanced Research Laboratory of Hitachi, Ltd. | Tokyo, Japan
Citation
For the development of high brightness field-emission electron beam and high resolution electron holography interference microscope and the definitive verification of the Aharovov-Bohm effect of the vector potential on the phase of electron waves.
Akira Tonomura developed the high brightness field-emission electron beam and the high-resolution electron holography interference microscope.
Information as of 2000