Physicist, born in Bergen, SW Norway. He studied at the Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, then emigrated to Canada in 1954. After moving in 1956 to the General Electric Research and Development Center in Schenectady, NY, he did research which led to a greater understanding of superconductivity, applying results developed by Leo Esaki. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on tunnelling effects in superconductors.
Ivar Giaever (originally spelled Giæver) (born April 5, 1929 in Bergen, Norway) is a physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Leo Esaki and Brian David Josephson for work in solid-state physics. 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.
Ivar Giaever earned a degree in mechanical engineering from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1952 and emigrated from Norway to Canada in 1954, where he was employed by the Canadian division of General Electric and transferred to the United States.
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