To me the greatest moment in an experiment is always just b… - Ivar Giæver

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To me the greatest moment in an experiment is always just before I learn whether the particular idea is a good or a bad one. Thus even a failure is exciting, and most of my ideas have of course been wrong. But this time it worked!

Ivar Giæver

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Ivar Giaever (April 5, 1929 – June 20, 2025) was a Norwegian physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Leo Esaki and Brian Josephson "for their discoveries regarding tunnelling phenomena in solids."

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Native Name: Ivar Giaever

Alternative Names: I. Giaever • I Giaever • Giaever • Giaever I • Giaever I.

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Global warming really has become a new religion. Because you cannot discuss it. It’s not proper. It is like the Catholic Church.

The facts are that in the last 100 years we have measured the temperatures it has gone up .8 degrees and everything in the world has gotten better.

I would say that the global warming is basically a non-problem. Just leave it alone and it will take care of itself.

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