1. Ivar Giaever is a professor emeritus at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the president of the company Applied Biophysics.
11 Facts About Ivar Giaever
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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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Ivar Giaever is currently a science advisor with American conservative and libertarian think tank The Heartland Institute.
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Ivar Giaever was married to his childhood sweetheart Inger from 1952 until her death on September 12,2023 at the age of 94.