Ivar Giæver
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physics — 1973for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively
- Citizenship
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Norway 
United States - Languages
- English
- date of birth
- 4/5/1929
- place of birth
- Bergen
- date of death
- 6/20/2025
- place of death
- Schenectady
- Lived
- 96 years
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- educated at
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- Norwegian Institute of Technology
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Clare Hall
- Hamar Cathedral School
- member of
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- Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- American Physical Society
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters
- Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
- National Academy of Sciences
- occupation
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- engineer
- physicist
- university teacher
- scientist
- notable work
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- solid-state physics
- field of work
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- applied mathematics
- immunology
- superconductivity
- physics of thin layers
- tissue culture
- solid-state physics
- biophysics
- semiconductor
- physics
- employer
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- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute