Ivar Giaever is a Norwegian-American engineer and physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Leo Esaki and Brian Josephson "for their discoveries regarding tunnelling phenomena in solids".
12 Facts About Ivar Giaever
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Ivar Giaever is a professor emeritus at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the president of the company Applied Biophysics.
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Ivar Giaever earned a degree in mechanical engineering from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim in 1952.
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Ivar Giaever moved to the United States four years later, joining General Electric's Corporate Research and Development Center in Schenectady, New York, in 1958.
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Ivar Giaever has lived in Niskayuna, New York, since then, taking up US citizenship in 1964.
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Ivar Giaever's experiments demonstrated the existence of an energy gap in superconductors, one of the most important predictions of the BCS theory of superconductivity, which had been developed in 1957.
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Esaki and Ivar Giaever shared half of the 1973 Nobel Prize, and Josephson received the other half.
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Ivar Giaever has co-signed a letter from over 70 Nobel laureate scientists to the Louisiana Legislature supporting the repeal of Louisiana's Louisiana Science Education Act.
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Ivar Giaever is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
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Ivar Giaever has repeatedly professed skepticism of global warming, calling it a "new religion".
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On 13 September 2011, Ivar Giaever resigned from the American Physical Society over its official position.
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Ivar Giaever is currently a science advisor with American conservative and libertarian think tank The Heartland Institute.