John Bardeen

American physicist and engineer (1908–1991)

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John Bardeen was an American physicist and engineer who lived from 1908 to 1991 and made significant contributions to understanding how electricity and magnetism work in materials. His work was important enough that he became one of the most recognized scientists of his era.

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Born: 1908
Works: 2

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1908-05-23
Active to: 1991-01-30

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5 total works indexed

Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 200,687x
Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,733x
Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,358x
Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 34,340x
The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 28,860x

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Quotes

“... I can't work well under the conditions at Bell Labs. Walter and I are looking at a few questions relating to point-contact transistors, but Shockley keeps all the interesting problems for himself.”

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Official website: physics.illinois.edu/people/memorials/bardeen.asp
Image: Bardeen.jpg

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Commons category: John Bardeen
date of birth: 1908-05-23
date of death: 1991-01-30
Erdős number: 5
name in native language: John Bardeen

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John Bardeen (May 23, 1908 – January 30, 1991) 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.

Born and raised in Wisconsin, Bardeen earned both his bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin, before receiving a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University. After serving in World War II, he was a researcher at Bell Labs and a professor at the University of Illinois.