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John Bardeen

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1956
for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1972
for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
English
date of birth
5/23/1908
place of birth
Madison
date of death
1/30/1991
place of death
Boston
Lived
82 years
educated at
  • Princeton University
    • academic major: physics
    • academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
    • end time: 1936
  • University of Wisconsin–Madison
  • University of Wisconsin High School
  • Madison Central High School
member of
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    • start time: 1959
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 1973
  • Japan Academy
    • start time: 1/12/1977
  • National Academy of Engineering
    • start time: 1972
  • Academy of Sciences of the USSR
    • start time: 1982
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1958
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1954
  • American Physical Society
    • start time: 1938
  • Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
doctoral student
  • John W. Wilkins
    • end time: 1963
  • John Robert Schrieffer
  • Nick Holonyak
  • John H. Miller, Jr.
  • David William Allender
  • William Lauchlin McMillan
  • Jared Logan Johnson
  • Wayne Earl Tefft
  • Milton William Valenta
  • Kendal True Rogers
  • Jerome Luther Hartke
  • William Manos Portnoy
  • Peter Benjamin Miller
  • Michael Francis Millea
  • John Richard Clem
  • Sang Boo Nam
  • Daniel Warren Hone
  • Wesley Northey Mathews
  • Stephen Reynolds Arnold
  • Richard Elmo Coovert
  • Paul John Leurgans
  • Peter Vance Gray
  • James William Bray
  • Daniel Charles Mattis
  • Rolland Albert Missman
employer
  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • University of Minnesota
field of work
  • physics
occupation
  • inventor
  • physicist
  • university teacher
  • electrical engineer
position held
  • professor
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