Ivar Giaever
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|birth_date = [[April 5]], [[1929]] (age 79)
|birth_place = [[Bergen, Norway]]
|nationality = [[Norway]]
|field = [[physics]]
|known_for = [[solid-state physics]]
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'''Ivar Giaever''' (originally spelled ''Giæver'') (born [[April 5]], [[1929]] in [[Bergen, Norway]]) is a physicist who shared the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] in [[1973]] with [[Leo Esaki]] and [[Brian David Josephson]] for related work in [[solid-state physics]]. His role was specifically in electron tunneling phenomena in superconductors. Giaever is an institute professor emeritus at the [[Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute]], a professor-at-large at the [[University of Oslo]], and the president of Applied Biophysics.
Ivar Giaever earned a degree in mechanical engineering from the [[Norwegian University of Science and Technology|Norwegian Institute of Technology]] in 1952 and emigrated from Norway to [[Canada]] in 1954, where he was employed by the Canadian division of [[General Electric]] and transferred to the [[United States]]. He has lived in Niskayuna, New York since then. While working for General Electric, Giaever earned a Ph.D. from the [[Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute]] in 1964. In 1969, he researched biophysics for a year at [[Cambridge University]], [[England]].
In addition to the Nobel Prize, he has also been awarded the [[Buckley Prize|Oliver E. Buckley Prize]] by the [[American Physical Society]] in 1965, and the [[Zworykin Award]] by the [[National Academy of Engineering]] in 1974. Ivar Giaever is an enthusiastic global warming skeptic, as revealed in a 2008 meeting of Nobel prize winners in Lindau, Germany. [http://nobellaureate.feedroom.com/index.jsp?auto_band=x&rf=sv&fr_story=1599eacaa33f706ce2ae9fbd7a0f7f9068ac9ef0&skin=showcase]
==External links==
* [http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=82E4B92E3A753DDF A film about Giaever's Nobel Prize]
* [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1973/giaever-bio.html Bio Nobel laureate website]
* [http://www.rpi.edu/~giaevi/ Ivar Giaever's home page at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute]
* [http://www.uio.no/english/nobel_prize/giaever_eng.html University of Oslo website about Ivar Giaever]
* [http://www.biophysics.com Applied Biophysics Website]
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[[Category:Norwegian Institute of Technology alumni]]
[[Category:Norwegian-Americans]]
[[Category:Hamar Katedralskole alumni]]
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