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
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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. He was a professor at the University of Oslo.

Giaever died on June 20, 2025 at a nursing home in Schenectady, New York at the age of 96.

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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