Ivar Giaever

Ivar Giaever
Giaever in 2005
Born
Ivar Giæver

(1929-04-05)April 5, 1929
Bergen, Vestland, Norway
DiedJune 20, 2025(2025-06-20) (aged 96)
Schenectady, New York, U.S.
Citizenship
  • Norway
  • United States (1964–2025)
Alma mater
Known forDiscovering tunnelling in superconductors (1960)
Spouse
Inger Skramstad
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(m. 1952; died 2023)​
Children4
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
  • GE Canada (1954–1958)
  • General Electric Research Laboratory (1958–1988)
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (from 1988)
  • University of Oslo (from 1988)

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

  1. 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
  2. ↑ "Nobel Prize winner Ivar Giæver has died". vg.no (in Norwegian). July 3, 2025. Retrieved July 3, 2025.

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