John Bardeen

John Bardeen (May 23 1908 – January 30 1991) was an American physicist. He is the only person to have won two Nobel prizes in Physics, in 1956 for the transistor, along with William Bradford Shockley and Walter Brattain, and in 1972 for a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity together with Leon Neil Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer, now called BCS theory.

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May 23 - 1908 - January 30 - 1991 - American - Physicist - Nobel prizes in Physics - 1956 - Transistor - William Bradford Shockley - Walter Brattain - 1972 - Superconductivity - Leon Neil Cooper - John Robert Schrieffer - BCS theory

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