John Bardeen
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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
Nobel Prize in Physics
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The Nobel Prize in Physics is an annual award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for those who have made the most outstanding contributions to mankind in the field of physics. It is one of
John Bardeen
…John Bardeen (May 23, 1908 – January 30, 1991) 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…
Alfred Nobel (1833–1896), who established the Nobel Prizes.
Three Nobel Laureates in Physics taken at the California Institute of Technology. Front row L-R: Albert A. Michelson (1907 laureate), Albert Einstein (1921 laureate), and Robert A. Millikan (1923 laureate).
Abdus Salam – 1979 laureate
1903 Nobel Prize diploma, awarded to Marie Curie and Pierre Curie