Ivar Giaever

Ivar Giæver (Norwegian: [ˈìːvɑr ˈjèːvər]; <a href="/facts/Anglicized/0xS2Rc6w">anglicized</a> as Giaever; born April 5, 1929) is a Norwegian-American <a href="/facts/Physicist/cQcgvSIm">physicist</a> who shared the 1973 <a href="/facts/Nobel_Prize_in_Physics/o6w1nCbr">Nobel Prize in Physics</a> with <a href="/facts/Leo_Esaki/DP0IvTgb">Leo Esaki</a> and <a href="/facts/Brian_Josephson/GG07CsRp">Brian Josephson</a>. One half of the prize was awarded jointly to Giaever and Esaki "for their experimental discoveries regarding <a href="/facts/Quantum_tunneling/WU4NMrKx">tunneling phenomena</a> in <a href="/facts/Semiconductor/zFf3mGTE">semiconductors</a> and <a href="/facts/Superconductors/pqQAlSzJ">superconductors</a>, respectively".
In 1975, he was elected as a member into the <a href="/facts/National_Academy_of_Engineering/6RCqfvXM">National Academy of Engineering</a> for contributions in the discovery and elaboration of electron tunneling into superconductors.
Giaever is a <a href="/facts/Professor_emeritus/3hyP5zYf">professor emeritus</a> at the <a href="/facts/Rensselaer_Polytechnic_Institute/e3smoUMm">Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute</a> and the president of the company Applied Biophysics.

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