John Bardeen Biography

John Bardeen biography

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NAME: John Bardeen
OCCUPATION: Educator, Inventor, Physicist
BIRTH DATE: May 23, 1908
DEATH DATE: January 30, 1991
EDUCATION: University of Wisconsin at Madison, Princeton University
PLACE OF BIRTH: Madison, Wisconsin
PLACE OF DEATH: Boston, Massachusetts

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Physicist John Bardeen was co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1956 for inventing the transistor, and in 1972 for the theory of superconductivity.

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John Bardeen was born May 23, 1908,in Madison, Wisconsin. In 1956 prize he shared the Nobel Prize for Physics with William B. Shockley and Walter H. Brattain for their joint invention of the transistor. In 1972, With Leon N. Cooper and John R. Schrieffer, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics again, this time for the development of the theory of superconductivity.