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Norwegian-US Nobel laureate Ivar Giaever dies aged 96

09 Jul 2025 Michael Banks
Ivar Giaever
Ivar Giaever made pioneering progress in the late 1950s on electron tunnelling in superconductors. (Courtesy: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, W F Meggers Gallery of Nobel Laureates Collection)
The Norwegian-born condensed-matter physicist Ivar Giaever, who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics i

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