John Bardeen: the only person to win two Nobel Prizes in physics

L Hoddeson

doi:10.1088/0031-9120/46/6/s01

John Bardeen: the only person to win two Nobel Prizes in physics

Physics Education ◽

10.1088/0031-9120/46/6/s01 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 46 (6) ◽

pp. 661-668 ◽

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Author(s):

L Hoddeson

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Nobel Prizes ◽

John Bardeen

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LILLIAN HODDESON and VICKI DAITCH, True Genius: The Life and Science of John Bardeen, the Only Winner of Two Nobel Prizes in Physics. Washington, DC: Joseph Henry Press, 2002. Pp. xi+467. ISBN 0-309-08408-3. £20.95, $27.95 (hardback).

The British Journal for the History of Science ◽

10.1017/s0007087404495818 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 37 (2) ◽

pp. 230-231

Author(s):

ARNE HESSENBRUCH

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Washington Dc ◽

Nobel Prizes ◽

John Bardeen

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John Bardeen, 23 May 1908 - 30 January 1991

Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society ◽

10.1098/rsbm.1994.0002 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 39 ◽

pp. 19-34

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First Person ◽

Social Significance ◽

Technological Revolution ◽

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Theory Of Superconductivity

John Bardeen was the first person to win two Nobel prizes in the same field. He shared the physics prize for the first time in 1956 with Walter Brattain and William Shockley, for the invention of the transistor, and for the second time in 1972 with Leon Cooper and Robert Schrieffer, for the development of the theory of superconductivity which has been known ever since by their initials, BCS. Of these two major achievements the second is unquestionably the greater intellectual triumph, while the first has proved of far greater social significance for the technological revolution it set in train.

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