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John Bardeen
John Bardeen was an American physicist. He is the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for their invention of the transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for their microscopic theory of superconductivity, known as the BCS theory.
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Born 23 May 1908 · Died 30 January 1991 · Q949
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2024· 2 entries
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine: True Genius: The Life and Science of John Bardeen: The Only Winner of Two Nobel Prizes in Physics
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2017· 1 entry
PBS: John Bardeen
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2012· 2 entries
Phys.org: Physicist awarded prestigious John Bardeen Prize
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Show oscillations in CDW current versus magnetic flux through tantalum trisulfide rings, similar to the behavior of superconducting quantum interference devices (see SQUID and Aharonov–Bohm effect), lending credence to t
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2003· 1 entry
Physics World: John Bardeen: genius in action
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1991· 3 entries
At Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, at the age of 82
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Died 1991-01-30.
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Bardeen died of heart disease on January 30, 1991, at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, at the age of 82.
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1990· 1 entry
Bardeen appeared on Life magazine's list of "100 Most Influential Americans of the Century
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1988· 1 entry
Awarded Harold Pender Award (1988).
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1987· 1 entry
Won Lomonosov Gold Medal (1987).
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1977· 1 entry
Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Gerald Ford (1977).
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1975· 1 entry
Won Franklin Medal (1975).
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1974· 1 entry
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (1974).
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1973· 2 entries
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1973).
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Won James Madison Medal (1973).
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1972· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1972).
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Bardeen, Cooper, and Schrieffer were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory
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1971· 2 entries
Won IEEE Medal of Honor (1971).
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1972, when BCS received the prize, and finally 1973, when tunneling was awarded
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1965· 1 entry
Won National Medal of Science (1965).
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1963· 1 entry
Experimental evidence and further theoretical clarifications were discovered supporting the Josephson effect, notably in a paper by Philip W
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1962· 2 entries
Awarded Fritz London Award (1962).
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Brian Josephson, then 22, submitted to Physics Letters his prediction of a super-current flow across a barrier, effect which later became known as the Josephson effect
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1957· 1 entry
Bardeen, in collaboration with Leon Cooper and his doctoral student John Robert Schrieffer, proposed the standard theory of superconductivity known as the BCS theory (named for their initials)
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1956· 5 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1956).
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Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect
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As co-inventor of the transistor and in 1972, for the explanation of superconductivity
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With William Shockley and Walter Brattain for their invention of the transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for their microscopic theory of superconductivity, known as the BCS theory
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1954· 2 entries
Awarded John Scott Award (1954).
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Awarded Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1954).
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1952· 1 entry
Won Stuart Ballantine Medal (1952).
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1951· 1 entry
Where he was Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Physics
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1947· 1 entry
Bardeen and Walter Brattain were working without William Shockley when they succeeded in creating a point-contact transistor that achieved amplification
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1936· 1 entry
Studied at Princeton University, Doctor of Philosophy (1936).
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1930· 1 entry
By Julius Lilienfeld, who filed his MESFET-like patent in Canada on October 22, 1925
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1923· 1 entry
At age 15; he could have graduated several years earlier, but this was postponed because he took courses at another high school and because of his mother's death
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1908· 2 entries
In Madison, Wisconsin, the son of Charles Russell Bardeen, the first dean of the University of Wisconsin Medical School, and Althea Harmer
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Born 1908-05-23.
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