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Ivar Giaever

Ivar Giæver
Giaever in 2010
Born (1929-04-05) April 5, 1929 (age 95)
Bergen, Norway
Nationality
  • Norway
  • United States
Alma mater
Known forTunneling phenomena in superconductors
Awards
Scientific career
Fields

Ivar Giaever (Norwegian: Giæver, IPA: [ˈìːvɑr ˈjèːvər]; born April 5, 1929) is a Norwegian-American engineer and physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Leo Esaki and Brian Josephson "for their discoveries regarding tunnelling phenomena in solids".[1] Giaever's share of the prize was specifically for his "experimental discoveries regarding tunnelling phenomena in superconductors".[2]

In 1975, he was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering for contributions in the discovery and elaboration of electron tunneling into superconductors.

Giaever is a professor emeritus at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the president of the company Applied Biophysics.[3]

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