"When the ice age comes, the temperature falls 8 degrees. So maybe we should pollute more, to prevent that?"
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Ivar Giaever
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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