John Bardeen
Videos
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 transis
Bardeen in 1956
Bardeen (left), William Shockley, and Walter Brattain at Bell Labs, 1948
A replica of the first transistor, built in 1997 by Lucent Technologies to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the invention of the point-contact transistor
A commemorative plaque at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign remembering John Bardeen and the theory of superconductivity
Transistor
Videos
A transistor is a semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electrical signals and power. It is one of the basic building blocks of modern electronics. It is composed of semiconductor material, u
John Bardeen
…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. Born and…
Transbauformen
Julius Edgar Lilienfeld proposed the concept of a field-effect transistor in 1925.