Giaever

[ yey-ver ]

noun

1. I·var [ee, -vahr], born 1929, U.S. physicist, born in Norway: Nobel Prize 1973.

Example Sentences

“If you don’t have a promotional budget or aren’t attached to a big network it’s really hard to find an audience,” said Bianca Giaever, whose memoiristic podcast “Constellation Prize” was featured by the Tribeca Festival in 2021.

From New York Times

An online forum about facial hair is a place for advice and “unfettered positivity,” Bianca Giaever wrote in The Times.

From New York Times

Winners who have triggered consternation for utterances outside their fields of expertise include the Norwegian Ivar Giaever, who won a physics Nobel – in 1973 – for work on superconductivity but who denies Earth is affected in any way by global warming.

From The Guardian

"This means most prisoners are going to return to society at some point. Put that together with very short sentences, and rehabilitation becomes even more important," says Anders Giaever, a commentator with Norway's daily VG newspaper.

From BBC

“If you’re a real Nobel Laureate like Ivar Giaever, who won the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics, or if you’re older, tenured and sufficiently eminent, you can just about withstand the Big Climate enforcers jumping you in the parking lot and taking the hockey stick to you,” Mr. Steyn said.

From Washington Times