Ivar Giaever

Ivar Giaever (; April 5, 1929 – June 20, 2025) was a Norwegian-American physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Leo Esaki and Brian Josephson. They were awarded it for their discoveries about the tunnelling phenomena in solids. He was a professor at the University of Oslo.

Giaever died on June 20, 2025 at a nursing home in Schenectady, New York at the age of 96.

References

Other websites

 Interview with Professor Ivar Giaever, from the Official Nobel Prize Website
 Biography and Bibliographic Resources, from the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, United States Department of Energy
 University of Oslo website about Ivar Giaever
 Applied Biophysics Website
 Family genealogy

Category:1929 births
Category:2025 deaths
Category:Naturalized citizens of the United States
Category:Norwegian physicists
Category:Norwegian academics
Category:Norwegian Nobel Prize winners
Category:People from Bergen
Category:Nobel Prize in Physics winners