Ivar Giaever

Ivar Giæver
Ivar Giæver
	Giaever in 2010
Born	April 5, 1929; Bergen, Norway
Nationality	Norway; United States;
Alma mater	Norwegian University of Science and Technology; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;
Known for	Tunneling phenomena in superconductors
Awards	Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1965); Nobel Prize in Physics (1973);
	Scientific career
Fields	Solid-state physics; Biophysics;

Ivar Giaever (Norwegian: Giæver, IPA: [ˈìːvɑr ˈjèːvər]; born April 5, 1929) is a Norwegian-American engineer and 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".

In 1975, he was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering for contributions in the discovery and elaboration of electron tunneling into superconductors.

Giaever is a professor emeritus at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the president of the company Applied Biophysics.

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