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John Bardeen
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Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers. Further, it is truly international in scope.
— Banquet Speech, John Bardeen, The Nobel Prize in Physics 1972
John Bardeen
American physicist and engineer (1908–1991)
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Lived 1908–1991, aged 83United States
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The only person to win the Nobel Prize in Physics twice — once for inventing the transistor that made modern electronics possible, and once for explaining superconductivity.
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Born in Wisconsin in 1908, Bardeen studied electrical engineering before earning a physics Ph.D. from Princeton. After World War II he joined Bell Labs, where in 1956 he shared the first Nobel for the transistor — the invention that would underpin everything from telephones to computers and launch the Information Age. He moved to the University of Illinois and kept working, this time on the puzzle of superconductivity. In 1972 he won again, with Cooper and Schrieffer, for the BCS theory that now powers MRI machines and quantum circuits. He became the first person to take two Nobels in the same…
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... I can't work well under the conditions at Bell Labs.
— told to Frederick Seitz as quoted by Lillian Hoddeson in No boundaries: University of Illinois vignettes, University of Illinois Press 2004
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