Ivar Giaever, 2018 Nancy DeLoye Fitzroy and Roland V. Fitzroy ...

Ivar Giaever, 2018 Nancy DeLoye Fitzroy and Roland V. Fitzroy ... Ivar Giaever, 2018 Nancy DeLoye Fitzroy and Roland V. Fitzroy ... Ivar Giaever, 2018 Nancy DeLoye Fitzroy and Roland V. Fitzroy Medal The Nancy DeLoye Fitzroy and Roland V. Fitzroy Medal, set up in 2011, perceives spearheading commitments to the boondocks of designing that have prompted an achievement in existing innovation, or to new applications or new zones of building try. Ivar Giaever, Ph.D., boss innovation official at Applied BioPhysics, Inc. in Troy, N.Y., is perceived for imaginative test work in superconductor burrowing that prompted a serious step forward in the comprehension of the wonder of superconductivity and to new logical instruments. Dr. Giaever earned a mechanical science certificate from the Norwegian Institute of Technology before moving to Canada in 1954. He worked quickly at Canadian General Electric in Peterborough before moving to the U.S. to join GE in Schenectady, N.Y. In the wake of finishing the companys designing system, he was with General Electric Research Laboratory from 1958 to 1988. At GE, Dr. Giaever researched on superconductivity and electron burrowing while at the same time seeking after his doctorate in hypothetical material science low maintenance at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. He earned his Ph.D. from RPI in 1964. In 1965 he was granted the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize, and he was respected with a portion of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 for his endeavors on burrowing and superconductivity. In 1988 Dr. Giaever joined the staff at RPI and was foundation teacher until 2004. He and Dr. Charles R. Keese framed Applied BioPhysics in 1991 to create, popularize and showcase ECIS, an electric cell-substrate impedance detecting innovation they had imagined while at GE, and other biophysical advances. The ECIS approach has been applied to various applications and there are presently ECIS instruments in research labs, medical clinics and pharmaceutical organizations around the world. Dr. Giaever is the beneficiary of different distinctions including various institute participations and privileged degrees. He was granted Honorary Membership in ASME in 1977. Video profile created and composed by Roger Torda and altered by Juan Yepes. The copyright of this program is possessed by The American Society of Mechanical Engineers.