Ivar
Giaever (born 1929) is a physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in
Physics in 1973 with Leo Esaki and Brian Josephson "for their
discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in solids". Giaever's share of
the prize was specifically for his "experimental discoveries regarding
tunneling phenomena in superconductors".
The work that led to Giaever's Nobel Prize was performed at General Electric in 196
0. Following on Esaki's discovery of electron tunneling in semiconductors in 1958.
Giaever showed that tunneling also took place in superconductors,
demonstrating tunneling through a very thin layer of oxide surrounded
on both sides by metal in a superconducting or normal state. Giaever's
experiments demonstrated the existence of an energy gap in
superconductors, one of the most important predictions of the BCS theory
of superconductivity, which had been developed in 1957.
Giaever's
experimental demonstration of tunneling in superconductors stimulated
the theoretical physicist Brian Josephson to work on the phenomenon,
leading to his prediction of the Josephson effect in 1962.
Are you a religious person?
"Absolutely not."
...Can you say more about that?
"Well, you could say all sorts things about that and offend people
maybe but the fact is I'm not religious and I don't like religion and I
think religion is to blame for a lot of the ills in this world."
Ivar Giaever (physicist)
Ivar
Giaever (born 1929) is a physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in
Physics in 1973 with Leo Esaki and Brian Josephson "for their
discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in solids". Giaever's share of
the prize was specifically for his "experimental discoveries regarding
tunneling phenomena in superconductors".
The work that led to Giaever's Nobel Prize was performed at General Electric in 196
The work that led to Giaever's Nobel Prize was performed at General Electric in 196
0. Following on Esaki's discovery of electron tunneling in semiconductors in 1958.
Giaever showed that tunneling also took place in superconductors,
demonstrating tunneling through a very thin layer of oxide surrounded on both sides by metal in a superconducting or normal state. Giaever's experiments demonstrated the existence of an energy gap in superconductors, one of the most important predictions of the BCS theory of superconductivity, which had been developed in 1957.
Giaever's experimental demonstration of tunneling in superconductors stimulated the theoretical physicist Brian Josephson to work on the phenomenon, leading to his prediction of the Josephson effect in 1962.
Are you a religious person?
"Absolutely not."
...Can you say more about that?
"Well, you could say all sorts things about that and offend people maybe but the fact is I'm not religious and I don't like religion and I think religion is to blame for a lot of the ills in this world."
Ivar Giaever (physicist)
Giaever showed that tunneling also took place in superconductors,
demonstrating tunneling through a very thin layer of oxide surrounded on both sides by metal in a superconducting or normal state. Giaever's experiments demonstrated the existence of an energy gap in superconductors, one of the most important predictions of the BCS theory of superconductivity, which had been developed in 1957.
Giaever's experimental demonstration of tunneling in superconductors stimulated the theoretical physicist Brian Josephson to work on the phenomenon, leading to his prediction of the Josephson effect in 1962.
Are you a religious person?
"Absolutely not."
...Can you say more about that?
"Well, you could say all sorts things about that and offend people maybe but the fact is I'm not religious and I don't like religion and I think religion is to blame for a lot of the ills in this world."
Ivar Giaever (physicist)
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