biography
pronunciation:
[bah(r)deen]
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| lived:
| (1908–91)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. He studied electrical engineering at Wisconsin University, and mathematical physics at Princeton (1936). After World War 2, he joined a new solid-state physics group at Bell Telephone Laboratories, where with Walter Brattain and William Shockley he developed the point-contact transistor (1947), for which they shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1956. Professor at Illinois University (1951–75), with Leon Cooper and John Schrieffer he received the Nobel Prize for Physics again in 1972 for the first satisfactory theory of superconductivity (the Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer or BCS theory), thereby becoming the first person to receive the Nobel Prize for Physics twice. |
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