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Ivar Giaever
1929 – 2025
About this person
Wikipedia SummaryIvar Giaever was a Norwegian–American physicist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leo Esaki and Brian Josephson. One half of the prize was jointly awarded to Esaki and Giaever "for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively."
Biographical & Professional Details
Date of birth
April 5, 1929
Bergen
Date of death
June 20, 2025
Schenectady
Citizenship
Norway · United States
Occupations & fields
physicistengineerscientistuniversity teacher
Awards & honours
Guggenheim FellowshipGunnerus MedalNobel Prize in PhysicsOliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter PrizeOnsager MedalGolden Plate Award
Notable works
solid-state physics
- Field and occupation
- fyzik z Nórsko
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