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John Bardeen

1908 - 1991

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John Bardeen (; May 23, 1908 – January 30, 1991) was an American physicist and electrical engineer. He is the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon N. Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity known as the BCS theory. The transistor revolutionized the electronics industry, making possible the development of almost every modern electronic device, from telephones to computers, and ushering in the Information Age. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Bardeen has received more than 1,542,904 page views. His biography is available in 89 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 85 in 2019). John Bardeen is the 83rd most popular physicist (up from 87th in 2019), the 299th most popular biography from United States (up from 334th in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Physicist.

John Bardeen is most famous for his work in the development of the transistor. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 for his work.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, John Bardeen ranks 83 out of 851. Before him are Mikhail Lomonosov, Manne Siegbahn, C. F. Powell, Charles Glover Barkla, Percy Williams Bridgman, and Charles Thomson Rees Wilson. After him are Hans Bethe, Victor Francis Hess, Albert A. Michelson, Jean Baptiste Perrin, Clinton Davisson, and Carl Zeiss.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, John Bardeen ranks 15. Before him are Lyndon B. Johnson, Herbert von Karajan, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Otto Skorzeny, Lev Landau, and Olivier Messiaen. After him are Henri Cartier-Bresson, Geli Raubal, Simon Wiesenthal, Ian Fleming, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Mika Waltari. Among people deceased in 1991, John Bardeen ranks 13. Before him are Edwin McMillan, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Carl David Anderson, Klaus Kinski, Jiang Qing, and Klaus Barbie. After him are Miles Davis, Gustáv Husák, Soichiro Honda, Graham Greene, Lazar Kaganovich, and Frank Capra.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Bardeen ranks 299 out of 20,380. Before him are Percy Williams Bridgman (1882), B. F. Skinner (1904), Robert E. Lee (1807), Ronnie James Dio (1942), P. T. Barnum (1810), and John Wayne Gacy (1942). After him are Sandra Bullock (1964), Miles Davis (1926), Coen brothers (null), Burt Lancaster (1913), Clinton Davisson (1881), and Oliver Hardy (1892).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, John Bardeen ranks 8. Before him are Richard Feynman (1918), Barry Barish (1936), Robert Andrews Millikan (1868), Carl David Anderson (1905), Ernest Lawrence (1901), and Percy Williams Bridgman (1882). After him are Clinton Davisson (1881), Willis Lamb (1913), Owen Chamberlain (1920), Ben Roy Mottelson (1926), Joseph Henry (1797), and Val Logsdon Fitch (1923).

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