Search results
Ivar Giaever is a Norwegian-born American physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1973 with Leo Esaki and Brian Josephson for work in solid-state physics. Giaever received an engineering degree at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim in 1952 and became a patent examiner.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Biographical. Ivar Giaever was born in Bergen, Norway, April 5, 1929, the second of three children. He grew up in Toten where his father, John A. Giaever, was a pharmacist. He attended elementary school in Toten but received his secondary education in the city of Hamar.
United Nations • Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. Human activities have been the main driver of climate change, primarily due to the burning of ...
- 30 min
- 3.2K
- 𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1973 was divided, one half jointly to Leo Esaki and Ivar Giaever "for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively" and the other half to Brian David Josephson "for his theoretical predictions of the properties of a supercurrent through a tunnel ...
Jan 15, 2018 · I am the Smartest Man I Know: A Nobel Laureate’s Difficult Journey. At the end of his last semester studying mechanical engineering at the Norwegian Institute of Technology, Ivar Giaever gained a grade of 3.5 for a thesis on the efficiency of refrigeration machines – just a little better than the 4.0 needed to pass.
Ivar Giaever. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1973. Born: 5 April 1929, Bergen, Norway. Affiliation at the time of the award: General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY, USA. Prize motivation: “for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively” Prize share: 1/4. Work.
People also ask
Who is Ivar Giaever?
Where did Ivar Giaever grow up?
Who is Dr Giaever?
Where did Giaever grow up?
What did Giaever do after he left GEC?
When did Dr Giaever become a physicist?
Giaever left GEC in 1988 to become both an institute professor at Rensselaer and a professor at the University of Oslo, Norway. His later work involves studying the motion of mammalian cells in tissue culture by growing both normal and cancerous cells on small electrodes.
