The Nobel Prize in Physics 1973
Awarded on: 1973-10-23
"for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively"
Affiliations:
- General Electric Company – Schenectady, NY, USA
Ivar Giaever
Born: 1929-04-05 in Bergen, Norway
Gender: male
Field: Norwegian-American solid-state and biophysicist (born 1929)
Biography
Ivar Giaever is a Norwegian-American solid-state and biophysicist 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".