Ivar Giaever
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Ivar Giaever (Norse: Giæver, IPA: [ˈiːvɑr ˈjeːvər]; born Aprile 5, 1929) is a Norse-American pheesicist wha shared the Nobel Prize in Pheesics in 1973 wi Leo Esaki an Brian Josephson "for thair discoveries regairdin tunnellin phenomena in solits".[1] Giaever's share o the prize wis speceefically for his "experimental discoveries regairdin tunnelling phenomena in superconductors".[2] Giaever is an institute professor emeritus at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a professor-at-lairge at the Varsity o Oslo, an the preses o Applee'd Biopheesics.[3]
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Born | (1929-04-05) 5 Aprile 1929 (age 95) Bergen, Norawa |
Naitionality | Norway, Unitit States (1964) |
Alma mater | Norse Institute o Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
Kent for | Solit-state pheesics |
Awairds | Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1965) Nobel Prize in Pheesics (1973) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Pheesics |
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