Ivar Giæver
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physics — 1973for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively
- Citizenship
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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- occupation
- university teacher
- physicist
- engineer
- scientist
- field of work
- immunology
- semiconductor
- superconductivity
- physics of thin layers
- tissue culture
- applied mathematics
- physics
- biophysics
- solid-state physics
- educated at
- Norwegian Institute of Technology
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Hamar Cathedral School
- Clare Hall
- employer
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- member of
- Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters
- Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
- National Academy of Sciences
- Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- American Physical Society
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- notable work
- solid-state physics