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

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