
Ivar Giæver
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Ivar Giaever (April 5, 1929 – June 20, 2025) was a Norwegian–American experimental physicist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leo Esaki and Brian Josephson. One half of the prize was jointly awarded to Esaki and Giaever "for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively."
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Nobel Prize Winner, Ivar Giaever, Resigns from the American Physical Society Over Global Warming Stance