John Bardeen
American physicist and engineer (1908–1991)
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Inventor of the transistor and architect of superconductivity theory—Bardeen's the only physicist to win the Nobel Prize twice, in 1956 and 1972.
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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 transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for their microscopic theory of superconductivity, known as the BCS theory.
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