Ivar Giaever, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Norwegian physicist
Date of Birth: 05-Apr-1929
Place of Birth: Bergen, Hordaland, Norway
Profession: professor, physicist
Nationality: Norway, United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Ivar Giaever
- Ivar Giaever (Norwegian: Giæver, IPA: ['i?v?r 'je?v?r]; born April 5, 1929) is 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 a professor emeritus at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the president of the company Applied Biophysics.
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