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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Example Sentences

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

From Science Daily • Apr. 27, 2026

In a separate release, the Times said it had appointed strategy head William Bardeen as its chief financial officer, replacing Roland Caputo who had announced his retirement in December.

From Reuters • May 10, 2023

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

“But,” sez Josiah, “Ury sez that if it wuzn’t sold there by Cap’n Bardeen the factory folks would go over into Zoar and git worse likker sold by low down critters.”

From Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife by Holley, Marietta