Read e-book online “I am the Smartest Man I Know”:A Nobel Laureate's Difficult PDF

By Ivar Giaever

ISBN-10: 9813109173

ISBN-13: 9789813109179

ISBN-10: 9813109181

ISBN-13: 9789813109186

A certain person with a desirable existence tale, Ivar Giaever is a scientist who gained the Nobel Prize in Experimental Physics in 1973. In his personal phrases, Giaever relates an soaking up story of ways very important success and luck were in shaping his lifestyles. He narrates the tale of a regular formative years in Norway and an unremarkable undergraduate occupation at collage. After completing his engineering measure, he served within the Norwegian military and married his youth sweetheart, Inger Skramstad. His wish to make a greater lifestyles for his new relations led Ivar to Canada after which to the USA. Even with no a complicated measure in a systematic box, Ivar used to be given the chance to paintings with state-of-the-art clinical researchers at basic electrical R&D in Schenectady, ny. whereas there, he accomplished his PhD at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute — one of many usa' oldest technological universities. His paintings on superconductivity ended in world wide acceptance and the Nobel Prize. This memoire is greater than the tale of an complete, world-renowned scientist: it truly is an enticing memory of an self sufficient, hugely inventive philosopher and challenge solver who loves video games and puzzles, snowboarding and windsurfing, and time with family and friends. Dr Ivar Giaever's interesting tale intertwines his perspectives at the nature of technological know-how, clinical tactics, modern matters akin to worldwide warming, and the nice advantages the Nobel Prize has afforded him. Written with humor and sometimes tongue-in-cheek, "I am the neatest guy i do know" is one man's meditation on technological know-how, highbrow inquiry, and lifestyles itself.