Content Description From the Collection: This collection, spanning from the 1950s to the late 2010s, contains extensive professional and personal papers of Dr. Ivar Giaever, Nobel Prize co-winner. A significant portion of the Giaever papers document his thirty-year tenure at the General Electric Corporate Research and Development Center in Schenectady, New York, a period during which Giaever conducted the groundbreaking experiments on electron tunneling in superconductors that led to his share of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics....

Content Description From the Collection: This collection, spanning from the 1950s to the late 2010s, contains extensive professional and personal papers of Dr. Ivar Giaever, Nobel Prize co-winner. A significant portion of the Giaever papers document his thirty-year tenure at the General Electric Corporate Research and Development Center in Schenectady, New York, a period during which Giaever conducted the groundbreaking experiments on electron tunneling in superconductors that led to his share of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics....