Ivar Giaever
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| Born | Ivar Giæver April 5, 1929 |
| Died | June 20, 2025 (aged 96) Schenectady, New York, U.S. |
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| Known for | Discovering tunnelling in superconductors (1960) |
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Inger Skramstad
(m. 1952; died 2023) |
| Children | 4 |
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Ivar Giaever (Norwegian: Giæver; April 5, 1929 – June 20, 2025) was a Norwegian-American physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Leo Esaki and Brian Josephson. They were awarded it for their discoveries about the tunnelling phenomena in solids.[1] He was a professor at the University of Oslo.[1]
Giaever died on June 20, 2025 at a nursing home in Schenectady, New York at the age of 96.[2]
References
[change | change source]- 1 2 "Press Release: The 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics". Nobelprize.org. 27 June 2011. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. 1973-10-23. Archived from the original on 2011-06-27. Retrieved 2011-06-27.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics to Leo Esaki, USA, Ivar Giaever, USA and Brian D Josephson, UK. The award is for their discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in solids
- ↑ "Nobel Prize winner Ivar Giæver has died". vg.no (in Norwegian). July 3, 2025. Retrieved July 3, 2025.
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- University of Oslo website about Ivar Giaever
- Applied Biophysics Website
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