John Bardeen
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John Bardeen (/bɑːrˈdiːn/; Mey 23, 1908 – Januar 30, 1991)[3] wis an American pheesicist an electrical ingineer, the anly person tae hae wan the Nobel Prize in Pheesics twace: first in 1956 wi William Shockley an Walter Brattain for the invention o the transistor; an again in 1972 wi Leon N Cooper an John Robert Schrieffer for a fundamental theory o conventional superconductivity kent as the BCS theory.[2][6]
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Born | 23 Mey 1908(1908-05-23) Madison, Wisconsin, U.S. |
Dee'd | 30 Januar 1991(1991-01-30) (aged 82) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Residence | Unitit States |
Naitionality | American |
Alma mater | Varsity o Wisconsin–Madison (B.S., 1928) Princeton Varsity (Ph.D., 1936) |
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Hauf-marrae(s) | Jane Maxwell (m. 1938–1991) |
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Fields | Pheesics |
Institutions | Bell Telephone Laboratories Varsity o Illinois |
Thesis | Quantum Theory of the Work Function (1936) |
Doctoral advisor | Eugene Wigner[4] |
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