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John Bardeen

John Bardeen

Key facts

date o birthMay 23, 1908
date o daithJanuary 30, 1991
thriftpheesicist, inventor
place o birthMadison
place o daithBoston
spooseJane Maxwell
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Born
23 Mey 1908Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.
Dee'd
30 Januar 1991 (aged 82)Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Residence
Unitit States
Naitionality
American
Alma mater
Varsity o Wisconsin–Madison (B.S., 1928)Princeton Varsity (Ph.D., 1936)
Kent for
Transistor BCS theory Superconductivity
Hauf-marrae(s)
Jane Maxwell (m. 1938–1991)
Bairns
James M. Bardeen (b. 1939) William A. Bardeen (b. 1941) Elizabeth Greytak (1944–2000)
Fields
Pheesics
Institutions
Bell Telephone LaboratoriesVarsity o Illinois
Thesis
Quantum Theory of the Work Function (1936)
Doctoral advisor
Eugene Wigner
Doctoral students
David Allender William McMillan John Robert Schrieffer Nick Holonyak

John Bardeen (; Mey 23, 1908 – Januar 30, 1991) wis an American pheesicist an electrical ingineer, the anly person tae hae wan the Nobel Prize in Pheesics twace: first in 1956 wi William Shockley an Walter Brattain for the invention o the transistor; an again in 1972 wi Leon N Cooper an John Robert Schrieffer for a fundamental theory o conventional superconductivity kent as the BCS theory.

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