| Ivar Giaever  Born: 5-Apr-1929
Birthplace: Bergen, Norway
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: Norway
Executive summary: Tunneling in superconductors Military service: Norwegian Army (1952-53, Corporal) Father: John A. Giaever (pharmacist)
Mother: Gudrun M. Skaarud
Wife: Inger Skramstad (m. 1952, one son, three daughters)
University: BS ME, Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim (1952)
University: PhD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1964)
Professor: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1988-)
Professor: University of Oslo (concurrently with Rensselaer)
Nobel Prize for Physics 1973 (with Leo Esaki and Brian D. Josephson)
Guggenheim Fellowship 1969
General Electric Mechanical Engineer, etc. (1954-88)
American Physical Society
IEEE
Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society
Naturalized US Citizen 1964
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