Ivar Giaever
Norwegian-American engineer and physicist
Ivar Giaever is a Norwegian-American engineer and physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Leo Esaki and Brian Josephson "for their discoveries regarding tunnelling phenomena in solids". Wikipedia
Place of birth: Bergen, Norway
Education: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1964), Norwegian Institute of Technology (1952), Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and more
Awards: Oliver E. Buckley Prize (1965) and Nobel Prize in Physics (1973)
Research interests: Superconductivity, Immunology, and Cell Biology
Known for: Tunneling phenomena in superconductors