John Bardeen
Born | (1908-05-23)May 23, 1908 Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.
Died | January 30, 1991(1991-01-30) (aged 82) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Residence | United States
Nationality | American
Alma mater | University of Wisconsin (B.S., 1928) University of Wisconsin (M.S., 1929) Princeton University (Ph.D., 1936)
Known for | Transistor BCS theory Superconductivity
Spouse(s) | Jane Maxwell (m. 1938–1991)
Children | James M. Bardeen (b. 1939) William A. Bardeen (b. 1941) Elizabeth Greytak (1944–2000)
Awards | Stuart Ballantine Medal (1952) Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1954) Nobel Prize in Physics (1956) National Medal of Science (1965) IEEE Medal of Honor (1971) Nobel Prize in Physics (1972) ForMemRS (1973) Lomonosov Gold Medal (1987) Harold Pender Award (1988)
Scientific career
Fields | Physics
Institutions | Bell Telephone Laboratories University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Thesis | Quantum Theory of the Work Function (1936)
Doctoral advisor | Eugene Wigner
Doctoral students | William L. McMillan John Robert Schrieffer Nick Holonyak