John Bardeen
Inventor of the Transistor
5/23/1908 -1/30/1991
Key Achievement
In 1956 John Bardeen, William Shockley and Walter Brattain were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the transistor. Bardeen was awarded a second Nobel Prize in Physics in 1972 for developing the theory of superconductivity. He is the only person to have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice.
Connection to Wisconsin
John Bardeen was born in Madison, Wisconsin. He graduated from Madison Central High School and received Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 1928 and 1929. He received a PhD is mathematical physics from Princeton in 1936. He died and is buried in Madison. John was the son of Charles Bardeen, the first dean of the University of Wisconsin Medical School.
For additional information, visit:
John Bardeen in the Illinois Distributed Museum
John Bardeen at PBS Wisconsin
John Bardeen at the American Physical Society
John Bardeen at the Magnet Academy
For additional information, visit:
John Bardeen in the Illinois Distributed Museum
John Bardeen at PBS Wisconsin
John Bardeen at the American Physical Society
John Bardeen at the Magnet Academy