John Bardeen

Background

An American physicist and the only person to win two Nobel Prizes in Physics.

Contribution

Co-invented the point-contact transistor at Bell Labs in 1947 with Walter Brattain; shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Associated inventions

• The Transistor

Collaborators & contemporaries

• Walter Brattain
• William Shockley

Associated organizations

• Bell Telephone Laboratories

Sources & further reading

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• The Nobel Prize in Physics 1956 — Shockley, Bardeen & Brattain (transistor)The Nobel Prize · Professional body

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