Awards & Winners

Ivar Giaever

Date of Birth 05-April-1929
Place of Birth Bergen
(Norway, Hordaland)
Nationality United States of America, Norway
Also know as Ivar Giæver
Profession Physicist, Professor
Ivar Giaever is a 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". 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.

Awards by Ivar Giaever

Check all the awards nominated and won by Ivar Giaever.

1973


Nobel Prize in Physics
(for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively)