biography
pronunciation:
[jayver]
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| lived:
| (1929– )
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Bergen, SW Norway. He studied at the Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, then emigrated to Canada in 1954. After moving in 1956 to the General Electric Research and Development Center in Schenectady, NY, he did research which led to a greater understanding of superconductivity, applying results developed by Leo Esaki. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on tunnelling effects in superconductors. |
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