Ivar Giæver

Ivar Giæver was a Norwegian-American physicist, engineer, and university teacher. Born in Bergen in 1929, he worked in the fields of physics, superconductivity, semiconductor science, and biophysics. He was employed by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he also received his education alongside studies at the Norwegian Institute of Technology, Clare Hall, and Hamar Cathedral School.

Giæver received the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize. He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, the National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, and the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters. His notable work focused on solid-state physics.

He authored the work *I Am the Smartest Man I Know a Nobel Laureate's Difficult Journey*. Giæver was an atheist who spoke English. He died in Schenectady in 2025. He had four children.