John Bardeen

John Bardeen (/bɑːrˈdiːn/; Mey 23, 1908 – Januar 30, 1991)^[3] wis an American pheesicist an electrical ingineer, the anly person tae hae wan the Nobel Prize in Pheesics twace: first in 1956 wi William Shockley an Walter Brattain for the invention o the transistor; an again in 1972 wi Leon N Cooper an John Robert Schrieffer for a fundamental theory o conventional superconductivity kent as the BCS theory.^[2][6]

John Bardeen
Born	23 Mey 1908(1908-05-23) Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.
Dee'd	30 Januar 1991(1991-01-30) (aged 82) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Residence	Unitit States
Naitionality	American
Alma mater	Varsity o Wisconsin–Madison (B.S., 1928) Princeton Varsity (Ph.D., 1936)
Kent for	Transistor BCS theory Superconductivity
Hauf-marrae(s)	Jane Maxwell (m. 1938–1991)
Bairns	James M. Bardeen (b. 1939) William A. Bardeen (b. 1941) Elizabeth Greytak (1944–2000)[1]
Awairds	Stuart Ballantine Medal (1952) Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1954) Nobel Prize in Pheesics (1956)[2] Naitional Medal o Science (1965) IEEE Medal o Honour (1971) Nobel Prize in Pheesics (1972) ForMemRS (1973)[3] Lomonosov Gold Medal (1987) Harold Pender Awaird (1988)
Scientific career
Fields	Pheesics
Institutions	Bell Telephone Laboratories Varsity o Illinois
Thesis	Quantum Theory of the Work Function (1936)
Doctoral advisor	Eugene Wigner[4]
Doctoral students	David Allender[4] William McMillan[4] John Robert Schrieffer[4] Nick Holonyak[5]