John Bardeen had met William Shockley when they were both in school in Massachusetts. In 1945, when World War 2 ended, Shockley was put in charge of a new research group at Bell Labs and he wanted ...

The quad behind Engineering Hall was officially dedicated and named the John Bardeen Quadrangle Thursday morning on the patio behind Engineering Hall. More than 100 people attended the dedication ...

John Bardeen, two-time Nobel Prize winner for his work on transistors and superconductivity, died Wednesday of a heart attack. He was 83. Mr. Bardeen, professor emeritus and faculty member of the ...

James A. Sauls, professor of physics and astronomy in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University, has been awarded the 2012 John Bardeen Prize for his contributions to the ...

The fact that he won an unprecedented two Nobel prizes in physics (in 1956 and 1972) may be the only extraordinary thing about John Bardeen. He grew up in a middle-class home in Wisconsin with his ...

Scientific genius is no easier to pinpoint than artistic genius. It derives from a combination of factors, including – but not limited to – intuition, imagination, far-reaching vision, exceptional ...

Sixty years ago two scientists would start a month of experiments that would come to shape the modern world. The period of work by John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, working under William Shockley, ...

John Bardeen was born on May 23, 1908 in Madison, Wisconsin. He was the second son of Dr. Charles Russell Bardeen, dean of the University of Wisconsin medical school, and Althea Harmer Bardeen, a well ...