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John Bardeen ForMemRS (/ bɑːrˈdiːn /; May 23, 1908 – January 30, 1991) [2] was an American physicist and electrical engineer.
John Bardeen was an American physicist who was co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in both 1956 and 1972. He shared the 1956 prize with William B. Shockley and Walter H. Brattain for their joint invention of the transistor. With Leon N. Cooper and John R. Schrieffer, he was awarded the 1972.
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Biographical. John Bardeen was born in Madison, Wisconsin, on May 23, 1908, son of Dr. Charles R. Bardeen, and Althea Harmer. Dr. Bardeen was Professor of Anatomy, and Dean of the Medical School of the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Dr. Bardeen’s main fields of research since 1945 have been electrical conduction in semiconductors and metals, surface properties of semiconductors, theory of superconductivity, and diffusion of atoms in solids.
- Early Life and Education
- Career Beginnings
- Bell Labs and The Invention of The Transistor
- Superconductivity Research
- Awards and Honors
- Death and Legacy
- Sources
Bardeen was born May 23, 1908 in Madison, Wisconsin. He was the second of five children to Charles Bardeen, the dean of the University of Wisconsin’s medical school, and Althea (née Harmer) Bardeen, an art historian. When Bardeen was almost 9 years old, he skipped three grades at school to join the 7th grade, and a year later he began high school. ...
After graduate school, Bardeen followed his professor Leo Peters to the Gulf Research and Development Corporation and began studying oil prospecting. There, Bardeen helped devise a method for interpreting geological features from a magnetic survey—a method considered so novel and useful that the company did not patent it for fear of disclosing deta...
In 1945, after the war ended, Bardeen worked at Bell Lab. He researched solid state electronics, particularly on the ways semiconductors can conduct electrons. This work, which was heavily theoretical and helped aid the understanding of experiments that were already being conducted at Bell Labs, led to the invention of the transistor, an electronic...
In the 1950s, Bardeen resumed research on superconductivity, which he had begun in the 1930s. Along with physicists John Schrieffer and Leon Cooper, Bardeen developed the conventional theory of superconductivity, also called Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) theory. They were jointly honored with the Nobel Prize in 1972 for this research. The award m...
In addition to the Nobel Prize, Bardeen received numerous honors awards and honors including: 1. Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1959) 2. National Medal of Science (1965) 3. IEEE Medal of Honor (1971) 4. Presidential Medal of Freedom (1977) Bardeen received honorary doctorates from Harvard (1973), Cambridge University (...
Bardeen died of heart disease in Boston, Massachusetts on January 30, 1991. He was 82 years old. His contributions to the field of physics remain influential to this day. He is best remembered for his Nobel Prize-winning work: helping to develop the BCS theory of superconductivity and producing theoretical work that led to the invention of the tran...
John Bardeen – Biographical. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1956/bardeen/biographical/Sir Pippard, Brian. “Bardeen, John (23 May 1908–30 January 1991), Physicist.”Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 1 Feb. 1994, pp. 19–34., rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/r...- Alane Lim
John Bardeen was born in Madison, Wisconsin on May 23, 1908. His father, Charles Russell Bardeen, was the first graduate of the Johns Hopkins Medical School and founder of the Medical School at the University of Wisconsin.
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Jan 30, 1991 · The Nobel Prize in Physics 1956. Born: 23 May 1908, Madison, WI, USA. Died: 30 January 1991, Boston, MA, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA. Prize motivation: “for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect”. Prize share: 1/3.
