John Bardeen
1908 CE–1991 CE · Madison
John Bardeen (May 23, 1908 – January 30, 1991) was an American 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 John Robert Schrieffer for their microscopic theory of superconductivity, known as the BCS theory. Born and raised in Wisconsin, Bardeen earned both his bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin, before receiving a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University. After serving in World War II, he was a researcher at Bell Labs and a professor at the University of Illinois. 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. Bardeen's developments in superconductivity, for which he was awarded his second Nobel Prize, are used in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, medical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and superconducting quantum circuits. Bardeen is the first of only three people to have won multiple Nobel Prizes in the same category (the others being Frederick Sanger and Karl Barry Sharpless in chemistry), and one of five persons with two Nobel Prizes. In 1990, Bardeen appeared on Life magazine's list of "100 Most Influential Americans of the Century."
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- Linus Pauling· 1901 CE–1994 CE
- Eugene Wigner· 1902 CE–1995 CE
- Barbara McClintock· 1902 CE–1992 CE
- Ernest Walton· 1903 CE–1995 CE
- Andrey Kolmogorov· 1903 CE–1987 CE
- Emilio Segrè· 1905 CE–1989 CE
- Albert Sabin· 1906 CE–1993 CE
- Grace Hopper· 1906 CE–1992 CE
- André Weil· 1906 CE–1998 CE
- Hans Bethe· 1906 CE–2005 CE
- Hideki Yukawa· 1907 CE–1981 CE
- Edward Teller· 1908 CE–2003 CE
- William Shockley· 1910 CE–1989 CE
- Dorothy Hodgkin· 1910 CE–1994 CE
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar· 1910 CE–1995 CE
- Chien-Shiung Wu· 1912 CE–1997 CE
- Wernher von Braun· 1912 CE–1977 CE
- Paul Erdős· 1913 CE–1996 CE
- Jonas Salk· 1914 CE–1995 CE
- Robert Burns Woodward· 1917 CE–1979 CE
- Richard Feynman· 1918 CE–1988 CE
- Vikram Sarabhai· 1919 CE–1971 CE
- Andrei Sakharov· 1921 CE–1989 CE
- Harish-Chandra· 1923 CE–1983 CE
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- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi· 1919 CE–1980 CE
- Yuri Andropov· 1914 CE–1984 CE
- Deng Xiaoping· 1904 CE–1997 CE
- Konstantin Chernenko· 1911 CE–1985 CE
- Richard Nixon· 1913 CE–1994 CE
- Emperor Hirohito (Showa)· 1901 CE–1989 CE
- Georgy Malenkov· 1902 CE–1988 CE
- Leonid Brezhnev· 1906 CE–1982 CE
- Gamal Abdel Nasser· 1918 CE–1970 CE
- Ronald Reagan· 1911 CE–2004 CE
- Lyndon B. Johnson· 1908 CE–1973 CE
- Kwame Nkrumah· 1909 CE–1972 CE
- John F. Kennedy· 1917 CE–1963 CE
- Julius Nyerere· 1922 CE–1999 CE
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