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Ivar Giaever shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Leo Esaki and Brian D. Josephson. More precisely: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1973 was divided, one half jointly to Leo Esaki and Ivar Giaever “for their experimental discoveries regarding tunnelling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively,” and the other half to Brian David Josephson “for his theoretical predictions of the properties of a supercurrent through a tunnel barrier, in particular those phenomena which are generally known as the Josephson effects.”
“After I got a “go-ahead and try it,” it took less than a week before I had done it, even though I had never done superconductors before.”
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See Kristian Fossheim: Ivar Giaever in Norwegian Nobel Prize Laureates. Olav Njølstad ed. Universitetsforlaget 2006.
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He did not, according to information John Fisher gave the author.
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Fossheim, K. (2013). Ivar Giaever: Single Particle Tunnelling: Confirming the BCS-Theory. In: Superconductivity: Discoveries and Discoverers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36059-6_6
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