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Ivar Giaever

1929 - Today

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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". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ivar Giaever has received more than 474,656 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Ivar Giaever is the 283rd most popular physicist (down from 257th in 2019), the 59th most popular biography from Norway (up from 61st in 2019) and the most popular Norwegian Physicist.

Giaever is most famous for being the first person to win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973.

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  • 59.63

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 59

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Ivar Giaever ranks 283 out of 717. Before him are Zhores Alferov, Otto Robert Frisch, Jan Ingenhousz, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Antoine César Becquerel, and Giovanni Battista Venturi. After him are George Smoot, Ernest Walton, Ludwig Prandtl, Thomas Johann Seebeck, Samuel C. C. Ting, and Carlo Rubbia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Ivar Giaever ranks 94. Before him are Omar Torrijos, Bob Newhart, Gerald Edelman, Fernanda Montenegro, Helmut Rahn, and Abdel Halim Hafez. After him are Yozo Aoki, Alasdair MacIntyre, Georgi Markov, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Bob Denard, and John Polanyi.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Ivar Giaever ranks 59 out of 927. Before him are Johan Christian Dahl (1788), Gustav Vigeland (1869), Johan Halvorsen (1864), Gunnbjörn Ulfsson (910), Eric II of Norway (1268), and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832). After him are Christian Krohg (1852), Magnus VI of Norway (1238), Alexander Kielland (1849), Ole Gunnar Solskjær (1973), Erna Solberg (1961), and Finn E. Kydland (1943).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Norway

Among physicists born in Norway, Ivar Giaever ranks 1. After him are Vilhelm Bjerknes (1862) and Ole Jacob Broch (1818).

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