Quick Facts

• 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

Best Known For

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.