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Ivar Giaever was a Norwegian–American experimental 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."

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science · Norwegian–American physicist (1929–2025) · physicist · engineer · scientist · university teacher · also Ivar Giæver, Ivar Giaever, I. Giaever, I Giaever, Giaever, Giaever I

Born 5 April 1929 · Died 20 June 2025 · Q192688

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Won Gunnerus Medal (2010).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1973).
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2025· 2 entries

Jun 20, 2025Documented record66% confidence

In Schenectady, New York, at the age of 96

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Jun 20, 2025Documented record86% confidence

Died 2025-06-20.

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2011· 1 entry

Sep 13, 2011Documented record66% confidence

Resigned from the American Physical Society, after the organization called the evidence of damaging global warming "incontrovertible

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2010· 1 entry

Jun 15, 2010Documented record84% confidence

Won Gunnerus Medal (2010).

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1988· 1 entry

1988Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Left General Electric to become an Institute Professor at RPI

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1973· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1973Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1973).

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1970· 1 entry

1970Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Founding the company Applied BioPhysics, Inc

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1969· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1969Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1969).

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1969Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Studied biophysics for a year at the University of Cambridge in England, through a Guggenheim Fellowship

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1966· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1966Documented record84% confidence

Won Golden Plate Award (1966).

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1965· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1965Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1965).

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1964· 3 entries

1964Source gives the year onlyDocumented record72% confidence

In 1964, Giaever became a naturalized U.S. citizen.

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1964Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Giaever became a naturalized U

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1964Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

With a thesis titled The Conductivity and the Hall Effect in Binary Alloys

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1960· 1 entry

1960Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Following from Leo Esaki's discovery of tunneling in semiconductors in 1957, Giaever showed that tunneling also took place in superconductors, demonstrating tunneling through a very thin layer of oxide surrounded on both

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1956· 1 entry

1956Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Joining the General Electric Research Laboratory in 1958

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1954· 1 entry

1954Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Giaever emigrated to Canada, where he joined the Advanced Engineering Program of Canadian General Electric

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1952· 1 entry

1952Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Giaever married his childhood sweetheart, Inger Skramstad, who died on September 12, 2023, at the age of 94

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1948· 1 entry

1948Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Entered the Norwegian Institute of Technology, graduating in 1952 with an M

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1929· 2 entries

Apr 5, 1929Documented record66% confidence

In Bergen, Norway, the second of three children of John A

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Apr 5, 1929Documented record86% confidence

Born 1929-04-05.

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