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John Bardeen (/ b ɑːr ˈ d iː n /; May 23, 1908 – January 30, 1991) was an American physicist and electrical engineer.He is the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon N. Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity known as the BCS theory.. The transistor revolutionized the electronics industry ...
John Bardeen was an American physicist who was co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in both 1956 and 1972. He shared the 1956 prize with William B. Shockley and Walter H. Brattain for their joint invention of the transistor. With Leon N. Cooper and John R. Schrieffer, he was awarded the 1972
J ohn Bardeen was born in Madison, Wisconsin, on May 23, 1908, son of Dr. Charles R. Bardeen, and Althea Harmer. Dr. Bardeen was Professor of Anatomy, and Dean of the Medical School of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. After the death of Althea, when John was about twelve years old, Dr. Bardeen married Ruth Hames, now Mrs. Kenelm McCauley, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded in 1956 to John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain, and William Shockley for “investigations on semiconductors and the discovery of the transistor effect,” carried on at the Bell Telephone Laboratories. In 1957, Bardeen and two colleagues, L.N. Cooper and J.R. Schrieffer, proposed the first successful explanation of superconductivity, which has been a puzzle since its discovery in 1908.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1956 was awarded jointly to William Bradford Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect" To cite this section MLA style: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1956. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2024.
Feb 1, 2003 · Although many outstanding scientists are known for their outgoing dynamic personalities, John Bardeen, one of the most creative scientists of the 20th century, was a modest and quiet man. Yet he received two Nobel prizes in physics—one for the transistor (which revolutionized computers and communications) and one for the theory of superconductivity (one of the fundamental theoretical advances in recent times). ...
Jun 11, 2018 · John Bardeen (1908-1991) was the first person to win the Nobel Prize twice in the same discipline. The first award was made for his part in the discovery of the transistor, and the second for his part in developing the theory of superconductivity. John Bardeen was born in Madison, Wisconsin, on May 23, 1908.
Nine years older than Bardeen, â Vanâ brought modern quantum physics to the University of Wisconsin when he came to teach there in the fall of 1928. â The University was strong in applied math- ematics,â Bardeen recalled, â but there was little interest in atomic physics until Van Vleck arrived.â Like Bardeen, John Van Vleck grew up in Madison, where he was born in 1899.
John Bardeen was the first person to have been awarded two Nobel Prizes in the same field. He shared one with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor. But it was the charismatic Shockley who garnered all the attention, primarily for his Hollywood ways and notorious views on race and intelligence.
John Bardeen was born in Madison¬—the capital of Wisconsin—on the 23rd of May 1908, to the Professor of Anatomy and Dean of the Medical School of the University of Wisconsin at Madison Charles R. Bardeen and his wife Althea Harmer. Since an early age, Bardeen showed great inclination for natural sciences graduating from Madison Central High School at the remarkably young age of fifteen. Confronted with the decision about his undergraduate studies, Bardeen chose electrical engineering ...
