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Ivar Giaever

1929 - Today

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Ivar Giæver (Norwegian: [ˈìːvɑr ˈjèːvər]; anglicized as Giaever; born April 5, 1929) is a Norwegian-American physicist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leo Esaki and Brian Josephson. One half of the prize was awarded jointly to Esaki and Giaever "for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively". 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ivar Giaever has received more than 511,357 page views. His biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Ivar Giaever is the 251st most popular physicist (up from 283rd in 2019), the 45th most popular biography from Norway (up from 59th 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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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Ivar Giaever ranks 251 out of 851. Before him are Klaus Hasselmann, John Archibald Wheeler, Jim Peebles, Gérard Mourou, Georg Bednorz, and Georg von Békésy. After him are Claude-Louis Navier, Brian Josephson, Charles Wheatstone, Masatoshi Koshiba, Philip Warren Anderson, and David Brewster.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Ivar Giaever ranks 63. Before him are Ralf Dahrendorf, James Last, Lennart Johansson, John Cassavetes, Osamu Yamaji, and Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow. After him are Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Bernard Haitink, Jerry Goldsmith, Gordon Moore, Peter L. Berger, and Violeta Chamorro.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Ivar Giaever ranks 45 out of 1,039. Before him are Lars Onsager (1903), Magnus the Good (1024), Gustav Vigeland (1869), Haakon IV of Norway (1204), Trygve Haavelmo (1911), and Sophus Lie (1842). After him are Oda Krohg (1860), Johan Halvorsen (1864), Haakon Sigurdsson (930), Olaf III of Norway (1050), Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner (1932), and Sonja Henie (1912).

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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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