Ivar Giaever
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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Trending topics shown first"If I have learned anything as a scientist it is that one should not make things complicated when a simple explanation will do."
"To me the greatest moment in an experiment is always just before I learn whether the particular idea is a good or a bad one. Thus even a failure is exciting, and most of my ideas have of course been w…"
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