John Bardeen(1908)
PhysicsJohn Bardeen was an American condensed matter physicist. He is the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for their invention of the transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon Cooper and Robert Schrieffer for their microscopic theory of superconductivity, known as the BCS theory.
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for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory
University of Illinoisfor their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect
University of IllinoisMost Cited Works
Top publications by citation countHalbleiterforschung auf dem Wege zum Spitzenkontakt‐Transistor Nobelvortrag 1956
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View all worksDie Frühzeit des Itransistors 1946 bis 1955
Halbleiterforschung auf dem Wege zum Spitzenkontakt‐Transistor Nobelvortrag 1956
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