Ivar Giaever
Ivar Giaever
Ivar Giaeveris a Norwegian-American 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...
NationalityNorwegian
ProfessionPhysicist
Date of Birth5 April 1929
CountryNorway
When I was 28 years old, I found myself in Schenectady, New York, where I discovered that it was possible for some people to make a good living as physicists.
Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.
There are just two things you can do to win a Nobel prize - have a good idea and pursue it effectively.