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John Bardeen

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American physicist and engineer (1908–1991)

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John Bardeen was an American male figure recognized in the collections of the Royal Society, the American Academy Arts Sciences, and the National Inventors Hall Of Fame. He was also included in the Nobel Laureates and Nobel Physics collections. Bardeen was born on May 23, 1908, and died on January 30, 1991.

His professional record includes an Erdős number of 5. According to available data, he is associated with a count of 2 in one context and 5 in another. He is referenced by 2,040 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Nobel Prize, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1908
Works
2

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Music · MusicBrainz

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

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

    · 1996 · cited 204,644x

  2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

    · 2021 · cited 43,680x

  3. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

    · 2000 · cited 36,923x

  4. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

    · 2007 · cited 35,594x

  5. The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)

    · 1992 · cited 29,138x

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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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Nobel Prizes (2)

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics1956

    “for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect”

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  • The Nobel Prize in Physics1972

    “for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory”

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Encyclopedic overview

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.

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