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Ivar Giaever: Nobel Icon For Climate Deniers, and Philip Morris
Sensible Nobel laureates study new topics before offering strong opinions on them. For example, at nearby Stanford, Burton Richter “retired” from high-energy physics, and kept contributing, as in talks, book and energy efficiency project. Former U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu has no problem speaking on climate science. Of course, both have easy access to top climate scientists.
By contrast, Ivar Giaever (1929-) did a bit of online searching in 2008, decided climate scientists were wrong, and has been saying so ever since, making him a hero to climate deniers unable or unwilling to assess his lack of credibility.
Even the world’s best brain surgeon is useless for open heart surgery unless they spend much time retraining.
Skeptical Science discussed his errors in Ivar Giaever – Nobel Winning Physicist and Climate Pseudoscientist (2012):
“I am not really terribly interested in global warming. Like most physicists I don’t think much about it. But in 2008 I was in a panel here about global warming and I had to learn something about it. And I spent a day or so – half a day maybe on Google, and I was horrified by what I learned.”
He seems to have learned little since, and the most
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Ivar Giaever - 1973 unprejudiced of Philanthropist Prize rank Physics
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Prof. Dr. Ivar Giaever > Research Profile
by Roberto Lalli
Ivar Giaever
Nobel Prize in Physics 1973 together with Leo Esaki and Brian D. Josephson "for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively".
Training in Engineering
Ivar Giaever was born in Bergen, on the west coast of Norway, on the 5th of April 1929, but grew up in the Toten district in East Norway and received his secondary education in the nearby city of Hamar. After a one-year working experience at the Raufoss Ammunition Factories, in 1948 he enrolled at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim to study mechanical engineering, in which he graduated in 1952.
In 1954, Giaever emigrated to Canada where he shortly joined the Advanced Engineering Programme of the Canada division of General Electric—a graduate level course in engineering and applied mathematics established by the General Electric Company to train its members. In 1956, he emigrated again to complete the A, B and C engineering courses at General Electric in Schenectady, New York. After completing his education, Giaever began to do pure research working at the General Electric Research and Development Center in 1958, at the same time entering the