John Bardeen

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John Bardeen

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1. American physicist who won the Nobel Prize for physics twice (1908-1991).

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John Bardeen (May 23, 1908 - January 30, 1991) was a physicist who was the co-inventor of the transistor. He developed a fundamental theory for conventional superconductivity together with Cooper and Schrieffer; today known as the BCS theory.

He was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and received his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin in 1928.

Bardeen studied Physics as a graduate student at Princeton, with Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner. He received his PhD from Princeton in 1936.

In 1956, Bardeen received the Nobel Prize in physics for the transistor. Amazingly, he received it again in 1972 for the BCS theory. No other physicist has received it twice.

Bardeen was also an important advisor to the Xerox Corporation. Though quiet by nature, he took the rare step of urging Xerox executives to keep their California research center, Xerox PARC, afloat when the parent company was suspicious that its research center would amount to little.

Xerox PARC went on to create the point-and-click method, the mouse, and the laser printer, among other things.

External Links

http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1972/bardeen-bio.html

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	To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the invention of the transistor, co-inventors William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain being honored during the IEEE INTERCON in New York City. Each of the Nobel Laureates receiving a special gold medal dona. Credit: Library of Congress.
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