John Bardeen (1908-1991)

Awarded the Prize “for his jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory.”

American physicist. Bardeen was born in Madison, Wisconsin on May 23, 1908. He studied in the University of Wisconsin. He obtained his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1936. He was a geophysicist with Gulf  Research Development Corporation, Pittsburgh. In 1935, he entered Harvard University moved to the University of Minnesota in 1938. He once worked at the Bell Telephone Laboratory the Naval Ordnance Laboratory, after which he was appointed Professorship at the University of Illinois. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Bardeen died on January 30, 1991 at Boston.