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Ivar Giaever, Nobel Prize winner who worked at GE and RPI, dead at 96
Ivar Giaever, Norwegian scientist who made Capital Region his home before winning Nobel Prize in 1973, died on June 20 in ...
Niskayuna physicist, Nobel laureate Ivar Giaever dies at 96
A young boy in Nazi-occupied Norway turned into a Nobel Prize winner in just 30 years. That may sound impossible to some, but ...
Ivar Giaever, Nobel Winner in Quantum Physics, Dies at 96
A former “D” student from Norway, he made his mark at G.E.’s Research Lab in the U.S., in part by confirming a pivotal theory ...
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Cutting-Edge Physics and Chemistry Unfold One Quintillionth of a Second at a Time
An attosecond—or 0.000000000000000001 second—is no time at all for a person. That is not so for electrons, atoms and molecules, and laser-wielding scientists are revealing the action ...
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Nobel laureate conversation: Prof. J. Michael Kosterlitz
Prof. J. Michael Kosterlitz is the 2016 Nobel Prize Winner for Physics. Through his career, he overturned the conventional understanding that ...
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The Emilio Segrè Visual Archives: Preserving the Personal Side of Physics
At the heart of ESVA is the Segrè Collection. A passionate photographer from the age of ten, Segrè documented much of his ...
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Norwegian-US Nobel laureate Ivar Giaever dies aged 96
The Norwegian-born condensed-matter physicist Ivar Giaever, who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1973, died on 20 June at the age of 96. In the late 1950s, Giaever made pioneering progress in the ...
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Netanyahu says nominated Trump for Nobel Peace Prize
U.S. President Donald Trump has been nominated again for the Nobel Peace Prize. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ...