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Clare Hall, Hamar Cathedral School, Norwegian Institute of Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Ivar Giæver: Norwegian-American physicist.
Born in Bergen (died at age 96).
6 awards including Golden Plate Award.
Studied at Clare Hall.
AWARDS (6)
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Golden Plate Award
WON
B
Guggenheim Fellowship
WON
B
Gunnerus Medal
WON
G
Nobel Prize in Physics
WON
Biography
Ivar Giaever 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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