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Ivar Giaever
1973 Physics

* 1929 in Bergen/Norway
 


   

Ivar Giaever

Ivar Giaever is a Norwegian-American physicist who
shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Leo Esaki and Brian Josephson
"for their discoveries regarding tunnelling phenomena in solids".
Giaever's share of the prize was specifically
for his "experimental discoveries regarding tunnelling phenomena in superconductors".


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