Ivar Giaever
Norwegian-American physicist
Died when: 96 years 76 days (1154 months)Star Sign: Aries
Ivar Giaever (Norwegian: Giæver, IPA: ['ì?v?r 'jè?v?r]; born April 5, 1929) was 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".
Giaever's share of the prize was specifically for his "experimental discoveries regarding tunnelling phenomena in superconductors".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.
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