Quo Fuit places 6 dated presences for Ivar Giaever across 5 places, from 1929 to 2025.
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Ivar Giaever (April 5, 1929 – June 20, 2025) was a Norwegian–American experimental physicist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leo Esaki and Brian Josephson.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Ivar Giaever was documented, and when
5 April 1929exact date
Bergenattested“Ivar Giaever was born on April 5, 1929, in Bergen, Norway, the second of three children of John A.”source: Wikipedia: Ivar Giaever
1956 to 1958period
United Statesattested“He then moved to the United States in 1956, joining the General Electric Research Laboratory in 1958.”source: Wikipedia: Ivar Giaever
1969year
University of Cambridgeattested“In 1969, he studied biophysics for a year at the University of Cambridge in England through a Guggenheim Fellowship.”source: Wikipedia: Ivar Giaever
1969year
Englandattested“In 1969, he studied biophysics for a year at the University of Cambridge in England through a Guggenheim Fellowship.”source: Wikipedia: Ivar Giaever
1970 to 1993period
United Statesattested“He continued to work in this area after he returned to the United States in 1970, founding the company Applied BioPhysics, Inc., in 1993.”source: Wikipedia: Ivar Giaever
20 June 2025exact date
Schenectady, New Yorkattested“Giaever died on June 20, 2025, in Schenectady, New York, at the age of 96.”source: Wikipedia: Ivar Giaever
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1948year
Norwegian Institute of Technologymentioned“In 1948, he entered the Norwegian Institute of Technology, graduating in 1952 with an M.Eng.”source: Wikipedia: Ivar Giaever
1954year
Canadamentioned“In 1954, Giaever emigrated to Canada, where he joined the Advanced Engineering Program of General Electric Canada.”source: Wikipedia: Ivar Giaever
1964year
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institutementioned“in 1964 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) with a thesis, written under Hillard Bell Huntington, titled The Conductivity and the Hall Effect in Binary Alloys.”source: Wikipedia: Ivar Giaever
13 September 2011exact date
Heartland Institutementioned“On September 13, 2011, he resigned from the American Physical Society, after the organization called the evidence of damaging global warming "incontrovertible." Giaever was a science advisor to the Heartland Institute, an American conser…”source: Wikipedia: Ivar Giaever
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