From The Poly, October 31, 1973
Dr. Ivar Giaever, an RPI graduate, was awarded a share of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics last week.
He is the first graduate of the Institute to receive the Nobel Prize.
The award recognizes his research on tunneling phenomena in superconductors conducted at the General Electric Research and Development Center in Schenectady.
Giaever will share half of the $121,000 total prize money with Dr. Leo Esaki at IBM and Dr. Brian D. Josephson at Cambridge University.
The three honorees will each be given a gold medal during ceremonies in Sweden on December 10, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death.
Although the superconductivity phenomenon was discovered in 1911, the currently accepted scientific theory of superconductivity was not advanced until 1957.
Giaever’s experimental research produced what he calls a "very nice proof of the theory" and led to his recognition for the Nobel Prize.
From The Poly, November 6, 1975
The Independent Council asked the Judicial Board to restore control of the organization to its members last Sunday, charging that the Rensselaer Union Executive Board had limited the rights of the council through a "series of unconstitutional rulings."
At time of publication the J-Board was still deliberating but promised a decision by Tuesday night.
The main causes of the conflict were actions that have given the E-Board an increasing amount of control over the financially ailing IC during the past two months.
In September the IC had agreed to restrictions on its actions in exchange for the E-Board paying its $2,500 in debts.
Later, when the E-Board discovered that the IC was still losing money on its film series, it forbade the council from spending any more money and ordered it to cancel the film series.
It was these E-Board actions that prompted Sunday’s J-Board case, according to IC President John Reid.
