Bardeen

American  

[bahr-deen] / bɑrˈdin /

noun

1. John, 1908–91, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1956, 1972.

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Bardeen British  

/ ˌbɑːˈdiːn /

noun

1. John . 1908–91, US physicist and electrical engineer, noted for his research on electrical conduction in solids; shared Nobel prize for physics 1956 for research on semiconductors leading to the invention of the transistor; shared Nobel prize for physics 1972 for contributions to the theory of superconductivity

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Bardeen Scientific  

/ bär-dēn′ /

1. American physicist who, with William Brattain and William Shockley, invented the transistor in 1947. For this work all three shared a 1956 Nobel Prize for physics. In 1972 Bardeen shared another Nobel Prize for physics with American physicists Leon Neil Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for their development of the theory of superconductivity.

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This phenomenon was first explained in the 1950s by physicists John Bardeen, Leon Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 27, 2026

The other individuals are John Bardeen who won the Physics prize twice, Marie Curie, who won Physics and Chemistry, Linus Pauling who won Chemistry and Peace and Frederick Sanger who won the Chemistry prize twice.

From Reuters ● Oct. 5, 2022

Only four other people—Marie Curie, Linus Pauling, John Bardeen, and Frederick Sanger—have won science’s top award twice.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 5, 2022

He returned to the University of Illinois in 1963 and had a professorship there endowed in the name of Professor Bardeen, his doctoral adviser.

From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2022

They were almost at Crystal Lake, and in another quarter of an hour would be at Uncle Toby's cabin, when Mr. Bardeen began sniffing the air.

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