John Bardeen (1908-1991)

Awarded the Prize “for his researches on semiconductors their discovery of the transistor effect.”

American physicist. Bardeen was born in Madison, Wisconsin on May 23, 1908. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin obtained his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1936. Bardeen 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 the Director of American Physical Society a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Bardeen died on January 30, 1991 in Boston.