Ivar Giaever

Ivar Giaever
Ivar Giaever
	Giaever in 2005
Born	Ivar Giæver; April 5, 1929; Bergen, Vestland, Norway
Died	June 20, 2025 (aged 96); Schenectady, New York, U.S.
Citizenship	Norway; United States (1964–2025);
Alma mater	Norwegian Institute of Technology (MEng); Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (PhD); University of Cambridge;
Known for	Discovering tunnelling in superconductors (1960)
Children	4
Awards	Oliver E. Buckley Prize (1965); Nobel Prize in Physics (1973);
	Scientific career
Fields	Condensed matter physics; Biophysics;
Institutions	GE Canada (1954–1958); General Electric Research Laboratory (1958–1988); Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (from 1988); University of Oslo (from 1988);

Ivar Giaever (Norwegian: Giævercode: no is deprecated ; April 5, 1929 – June 20, 2025) was a Norwegian-American physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Leo Esaki and Brian Josephson. They were awarded it for their discoveries about the tunnelling phenomena in solids.^[1] He was a professor at the University of Oslo.^[1]

Giaever died on June 20, 2025 at a nursing home in Schenectady, New York at the age of 96.^[2]

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Ivar Giaever
Giaever in 2005
Born	Ivar Giæver (1929-04-05)April 5, 1929 Bergen, Vestland, Norway
Died	June 20, 2025(2025-06-20) (aged 96) Schenectady, New York, U.S.
Citizenship	Norway United States (1964–2025)
Alma mater	Norwegian Institute of Technology (MEng) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (PhD) University of Cambridge
Known for	Discovering tunnelling in superconductors (1960)
Children	4
Awards	Oliver E. Buckley Prize (1965) Nobel Prize in Physics (1973)
Scientific career
Fields	Condensed matter physics Biophysics
Institutions	GE Canada (1954–1958) General Electric Research Laboratory (1958–1988) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (from 1988) University of Oslo (from 1988)