Giaever was born in Bergen, Norway, on April 5, 1929. He earned a degree in mechanical engineering at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1952. After serving a year in the Norwegian army and a ye...
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Ralph Alpher, a physicist whose pioneering work on the underpinnings of the "Big Bang" theory went unheralded for years while others won a Nobel Prize, has died. He was 86.Alpher died Aug. 12 in Au...
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Ivar Giaever
'Big Bang' pioneer Ralph Alpher dies
