# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ivar-gi-ver
# Generated: 2026-08-31T23:26:45.900Z

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name: "Ivar Giæver"
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description: "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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birthDate: "1929-04-05"
deathDate: "2025-06-20"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump