Ivar Giaever
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". Giaever's share of the prize was specifically for his "experimental discoveries regarding tunnelling phenomena in superconductors".
5 April 1929
Born on the same birth date (5 April 1929): Hugo Claus • Joe Meek • Mahmoud Mollaghasemi • Nigel Hawthorne
Born on the same birth day (5 April): Andy Linden (racing driver) • Dennis Mortimer • Franz Eckert • Hiromi Taniguchi • Jonathan Rossini • Juicy J • Lukas Ridgeston • Marissa Nadler • Nikita Demidov • Pape Sy • Paul Okon • Ravindra Prabhat • Ulrich Wille • Vincenzo Gioberti • Walter W. Winans • William Cowhig
Born in the same month (April 1929): April 10 • April Stevens • Dr. Rajkumar • George Steiner • Gerry Anderson • Humbert Allen Astredo • Inez Andrews • Jane Powell • Mahmoud Mollaghasemi • Paule Marshall • Peter Hordern • Sharan Rani Backliwal