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John Bardeen
Bardeen in 1956
Born(1908-05-23)May 23, 1908
DiedJanuary 30, 1991(1991-01-30) (aged 82)
EducationUniversity of Wisconsin (BS, MS)
Princeton University (PhD)
Known for
Spouse
Jane Maxwell
(m. 1938)
Children
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsBell Telephone Laboratories
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
University of Minnesota
ThesisQuantum Theory of the Work Function (1936)
Doctoral advisorEugene Wigner[3]
Other academic advisorsJohn Hasbrouck Van Vleck[4]
Doctoral students

John Bardeen (/bɑːrˈdn/; May 23, 1908 – January 30, 1991)[2] was an American physicist and electrical engineer. He is the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon N. Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity known as the BCS theory.[1][7]

The transistor revolutionized the electronics industry, making possible the development of almost every modern electronic device, from telephones to computers, and ushering in the Information Age. Bardeen's developments in superconductivity—for which he was awarded his second Nobel Prize—are used in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR), medical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and superconducting quantum circuits.

Born and raised in Wisconsin, Bardeen received a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University. After serving in World War II, he was a researcher at Bell Labs and a professor at the University of Illinois. In 1990, Bardeen appeared on Life magazine's list of "100 Most Influential Americans of the Century."[8]

Bardeen is the first of only three people to have won multiple Nobel Prizes in the same category (the others being Frederick Sanger and Karl Barry Sharpless in chemistry), and one of five persons with two Nobel Prizes.

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IN 1972, JOHN BARDEEN, A PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, BECAME THE FIRST PERSON TO WIN TWO NOBEL PRIZES IN PHYSICS. David Pines: WOULD IT HAVE HAPPENED IF BARDEEN HAD GONE TO HARVARD, BERKELEY, PRINCETON? I DOUBT IT. Anthony J. Leggett: HE, NO DOUBT, ONE OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED PHYSICISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY. Nick Holonyak: THESE OTHER GUYS ARE COMPETING AND PLAYING PHYSICS WITH ONE ANOTHER. BARDEEN IS PLAYING PHYSICS WITH GOD! (LAUGHING) JOHN BARDEEN'S PATH TO SCIENTIFIC GREATNESS BEGAN AS THE GREAT WAR CAME TO AN END. AFTER WORLD WAR II, AMERICA WANTED TO HAVE FUN. AMERICAN COMPANIES WERE EAGER TO PROVIDE THE LUXURY ITEMS THAT EVERYONE WANTED TO BUY. THEIR PRODUCTION LINES STOPPED MAKING TANKS AND STARTED MAKING CARS. ONE OF THE COMPANIES THAT WAS BOOMING AFTER THE WAR WAS AT & T, BUT THEY HAD A PROBLEM. THEIR COMPLEX SYSTEM OF TELEPHONE LINES CRISSCROSSING THE COUNTRY WERE POWERED AND AMPLIFIED BY VACUUM TUBES. VACUUM TUBES POWERED ALL ELECTRONICS. Richard Blahut: THE VACUUM TUBES WERE BIG, BULKY, EXPENSIVE. THEY DIDN'T LAST A LONG TIME. THE VACUUM TUBE WORKED IN THE WAY SIMILAR TO A LIGHT BULB. ALSO, LIKE THE LIGHT BULB, IT GENERATED A LOT OF HEAT, AND IT BURNED OUT. BY 1945, AT & T'S VACUUM TUBES WERE REACHING THEIR LIMIT. THE COMPANY NEEDED A NEW AMPLIFIER, SOMETHING REVOLUTIONARY. AT & T AND ITS BELL LABS HIRED THE BEST MINDS IN SCIENCE TO FIND THE ANSWER. ONE OF THESE MINDS WAS JOHN BARDEEN. Gordon Baym: JOHN WAS COMPLETELY A GENIUS. HE WAS JUST SO SMART AND SO CAPABLE AND SO IMAGINATIVE. Lillian Hoddeson: HE KNEW THAT HE WAS GIFTED. Bill Bardeen: I THINK MY FATHER IN SOME SENSE HAD A GOOD SENSE OF WHEN TO ATTACK. Charles Slichter: HE WANTED TO BE THE GUY WHO FOUND THE ANSWER TO THE BIG QUESTION. David Pines: I THINK, ARGUABLY, MORE THAN ANY SCIENTIST ALIVE IN THE LATTER PART OF THE 20TH CENTURY, HE CHANGED OUR WORLD. AT BELL LABS ON DECEMBER 16, 1947, JOHN BARDEEN AND WALTER BRATTAIN INVENTED THE POINT CONTACT TRANSISTOR. IT SPARKED AN ELECTRONICS REVOLUTION. John Bardeen: WE KNEW WE WERE ON TO SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT. TRANSISTORS WOULD HAVE MANY APPLICATIONS. (archival footage from Bell Labs) YOU MAY BE ABLE TO GET MUSIC WITH A FLICK OF YOUR WRIST FROM A SO-CALLED DICK TRACY RADIO. AND WITH THE PORTABLE TELEVISION SET, YOU MAYBE ABLE TO ENJOY VIDEO ENTERTAINMENT ANYWHERE YOU GO. Richard Blahut: WHAT WE NOW HAVE TODAY THAT WE TAKE FOR GRANTED ARE CELL PHONES, LAP TOP COMPUTERS, INTERNET, HOME TELEVISIONS OF ALL KINDS, ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT IN THE HOSPITALS THAT WE ALL DEPEND ON. ALL OF IT ABSOLUTELY DEPENDS ON THE TRANSISTOR. Julian Dibbel: WITH THE TRANSISTOR, WE ARE ABLE TO DO THIS INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF PROCESSING AT GREAT DISTANCES, TO THE POINT WHERE IT BECOMES MAGICAL. IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE, THAT COMPLETELY CHANGED OUR RELATIONSHIP TO THE WORLD AROUND US. Nick Holonyak: WHO KNEW IT WOULD GET THIS BIG? WHO KNEW? NOBODY. JOHN BARDEEN WAS BORN ON MAY 23, 1908, IN MADISON, WISCONSIN. THE TEN POUND BOY WAS THE SECOND SON OF CHARLES AND ALTHEA BARDEEN. CHARLES WAS THE DEAN OF THE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL, AND ALTHEA WAS A FORMER TEACHER FROM THE PROGRESSIVE DEWEY SCHOOL IN CHICAGO. ALTHEA REALIZED HER YOUNG SON, JOHN, HAD A TALENT FOR MATH. Lillian Hoddesson: HE HAD A TENDENCY TO GET VERY BORED WHEN HE WASN'T CHALLENGED. SO HIS MOTHER KEPT SKIPPING HIM. Bill Bardeen: WHEN HE WAS TEN YEARS OLD, HE WAS ABLE TO TAKE ALGEBRA. AT THE END OF THE COURSE, THEY HAD A COMPETITION, AND MY FATHER WON THE COMPETITION. Lillian Hoddeson: THE FACT THAT JOHN WAS SO MUCH YOUNGER THAN HIS CLASSMATES OBVIOUSLY AFFECTED HIM SOCIALLY. HE JUST DIDN'T FIT IN. David Pines: HERE IS THIS TINY LITTLE KID WITH ALL THESE TOWERING PEOPLE AROUND HIM, SMARTER THAN ANYONE ELSE IN HIS CLASS. SOMEWHERE ALONG THE LINE, HE FIGURED OUT FOR HIMSELF, "OKAY, I AM GOING TO KEEP QUIET ABOUT THINGS THAT I KNOW. MY PATH FORWARD IS NOT GOING TO BE ONE OF TELLING EVERYBODY AROUND ME HOW SMART I AM." THE BARDEEN FAMILY WAS DEVASTATED WHEN ALTHEA DIED FROM BREAST CANCER IN 1920. JOHN WAS SHOCKED BY THE LOSS. Hoddeson: I THINK THE STRENGTH THAT HE DEVELOPED MADE HIM MORE ABLE TO HAVE A TOUGHNESS THAT WAS NECESSARY, NOT ONLY TO SURVIVE IN THE FIELD OF PHYSICS, BUT TO BECOME ONE OF THE LEADING PEOPLE. AFTER HIS MOTHER'S DEATH, JOHN STRUGGLED TO KEEP UP HIS GRADES. BUT HE STILL MANAGED TO FINISH HIGH SCHOOL AT THE AGE OF 13. IN 1923, HE ENROLLED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN. Slichter: BUT JOHN WANTED TO JOIN A FRATERNITY, AND ACTUALLY HE SAVED SOME MONEY UP. ONE OF THE THINGS HE DID WAS HE PLAYED POOL. HE WAS AN EXPERT POOL PLAYER. Bill Bardeen: THERE WERE STORIES OF HIM HANGING OUT WITH SOME OF THE SPORTS TEAMS. EVEN THOUGH HE WAS SO YOUNG, HE SEEMED TO BE ABLE TO GET ALONG WITH PEOPLE WHO WERE OLDER. JOHN JOINED THE ZETA PSI FRATERNITY AND MADE THE VARSITY SWIM TEAM. Hoddeson: SPORTS IN A WAY HELPED HIM TRAIN TO BE A STRONGER PHYSICIST; TRY, TRY AGAIN PHILOSOPHY, AND PRACTICE AND PRACTICE AND PRACTICE, AND BUILD-UP MASTERY. JUST AS THE COUNTRY WAS SLIDING INTO THE GREAT DEPRESSION, BARDEEN GRADUATED WITH A MASTER'S IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING. HE WAS LUCKY TO BE OFFERED A POSITION WITH THE GULF OIL COMPANY. AFTER THREE YEARS AT GULF, BARDEEN WENT BACK TO SCHOOL AT PRINCETON. HE HOPED TO STUDY WITH ALBERT EINSTEIN, BUT EINSTEIN DID NOT WORK WITH STUDENTS. BARDEEN BECAME CLOSE FRIENDS WITH FELLOW PHYSICS STUDENT, FRED SEITZ. SEITZ WAS WORKING WITH HIS ADVISOR EUGENE WIGNER ON GROUND BREAKING RESEARCH INTO MATERIALS KNOWN AS SEMICONDUCTORS. THEY COULD BOTH CONDUCT AND RESIST THE FLOW OF ELECTRICITY DEPENDING ON THEIR CONDITION. AFTER A FIVE YEAR COURTSHIP, JOHN MARRIED BIOLOGIST AND TEACHER JANE MAXWELL ON JULY 18, 1938. Pines: JANE WAS COMPLETELY THE RIGHT KIND OF WIFE FOR JOHN. HE HAD KNOWN THIS FOR SOME TIME. HE JUST DID NOT ASK HER TO MARRY HIM UNTIL HE HAD A JOB. Bill Bardeen: IN MANY WAYS, SHE HELPED HIM BECOME THE SCIENTIST HE WAS. IN THE NEXT DECADE, BARDEEN WOULD INVENT A DEVICE THAT WOULD CHANGE THE WORLD AND BREAK APART A FRIENDSHIP. IN 1938, JOHN AND JANE BARDEEN SETTLED INTO A PEACEFUL ACADEMIC LIFE AS JOHN TAUGHT PHYSICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA. BUT CHANGES LOOMED ON THE GLOBAL LANDSCAPE. HITLER ROSE TO POWER IN GERMANY AND OVERRAN POLAND IN 1939. IT WAS A SIGNAL TO MANY COUNTRIES TO PREPARE FOR WAR. WASHINGTON ASKED SCIENTISTS TO SERVE IN THE ARMED FORCES, AND BARDEEN HEARD THE CALL. ONE OF THE MANY TECHNOLOGICAL IMPROVEMENTS SCIENTISTS MADE FOR THE ALLIED FORCES WAS ADVANCED RADAR. THEY CREATED A FAR REACHING RADAR THAT COULD SEE ENEMY PLANES AND SHIPS EVEN AT NIGHT. THE NEW RADARS USED A CRYSTAL DIODE USING THE MATERIALS SILICON OR GERMANIUM. A DIODE ONLY ALLOWS ELECTRICITY TO FLOW ONE WAY. THE CRYSTAL DIODE IN THE RADAR CONVERTED THE RADIO WAVES OF THE RADAR SIGNAL INTO SOMETHING THAT COULD BE SEEN ON A SCOPE. Slichter: PEOPLE HAD AN IDEA THAT ONE MIGHT BE ABLE TO REPLACE VACUUM TUBES WITH SOMETHING MADE FROM THE MATERIALS THAT MADE THESE CRYSTAL DIODES. ONE COMPANY THAT DESPERATELY WANTED TO REPLACE VACUUM TUBES WAS A T & T. AT & T'S RESEARCH FACILITY, BELL LABS, ASKED WILLIAM SHOCKLEY TO START A NEW SOLID STATE RESEARCH DEPARTMENT. THE GOAL OF THE GROUP WAS FIND A NEW AMPLIFIER AND SWITCH FOR TELEPHONE LINES. AT THE END OF THE WAR, BARDEEN ACCEPTED A LUCRATIVE OFFER FROM BELL LABS. HE WAS HIRED TO WORK WITH WILLIAM SHOCKLEY AND AN EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICIST NAMED WALTER BRATTAIN. Nick Holonyak: WALTER WAS HANDY IN SETTING UP THINGS AND WAS A CONSIDERABLE EXPERIMENTALIST. BUT WITH BARDEEN AROUND, WITH WITH HIS POWER OF THINKING AND ANALYZING AND UNDERSTANDING THE DATA, WALTER WAS A GREAT EXPERIMENTALIST. WILLIAM SHOCKLEY BELIEVED THEY COULD MAKE AN AMPLIFIER BY USING A NOTION CALLED THE FIELD EFFECT. SHOCKLEY THEORIZED THAT AN ELECTRICAL FIELD ERECTED PERPENDICULAR NEAR TO BUT INSULATED FROM THE SURFACE OF A SLAB OF SILICON SHOULD DRAW ELECTRONS OUT OF THE SEMI-CONDUCTOR MATERIAL AND CREATE A PATH OF CURRENT. BUT THE EXPERIMENT DIDN'T WORK. STUMPED, SHOCKLEY ASKED BARDEEN TO TRY AND FIGURE OUT WHAT WAS WRONG WITH THIS FIELD EFFECT DESIGN. BARDEEN SOON HAD THE ANSWER, STATES AT THE SURFACE OF THE SEMI-CONDUCTOR WERE TRAPPING THE ELECTRONS, PREVENTING THEM FROM FORMING THE PATH OF CURRENT. Hoddeson: BY THIS POINT, SHOCKLEY LOST INTEREST AND LET THEM WORK BY THEMSELVES. SO HE WASN'T IN THERE. I MEAN HE WOULD BE AROUND TO TALK ABOUT THINGS AND HAVE MEETINGS AND SO FORTH, BUT HE WASN'T IN THE LAB. USING BARDEEN'S THEORY OF SURFACE STATES, BRATTAIN AND BARDEEN STRUGGLED ON THE LAB FOR MONTHS TO BUILD A FIELD EFFECT AMPLIFIER. THEY HAD LIMITED SUCCESS WHEN THEY REPLACED THE SILICON WITH A SPECIAL KIND OF GERMANIUM. THEY ALSO TRIED VARIOUS LIQUIDS AS THE INSULATOR ON THE SURFACE OF THE GERMANIUM. EVENTUALLY THEY TRIED A THIN OXIDE LAYER THAT BARDEEN SAW GROWING ON THE SEMICONDUCTOR SURFACE. IN ONE EXPERIMENT, BRATTAIN ACCIDENTALLY WASHED THE INSULATOR AWAY. SO THE ELECTRICAL CONDUCTOR WAS IN DIRECT CONTACT WITH THE GERMANIUM. THE ACCIDENTAL CONTACT ALLOWED THE INJECTION OF POSITIVE CHARGE CARRIERS KNOWN AS HOLES TO ENTER THE GERMANIUM AND MODULATE THE CURRENT. BARDEEN AND BRATTAIN COULD NOW DESIGN AN IMPROVED VERSION OF THE DEVICE. BRATTAIN COVERED A SMALL INVERTED PLASTIC TRIANGLE WITH GOLD FOIL, THEN CUT A RAZOR THIN SLIT IN THE BOTTOM. THE TRIANGLE WITH THE ATTACHED TWO LINES OF FOIL WAS PRESSED INTO THE GERMANIUM SLAB AND CARRIED AN ELECTRICAL CURRENT. Nick Holonayk: IF I PUT SOME CURRENT IN HERE AND GET ALMOST ALL OF THAT OUT OVER HERE, AND I PUT IT IN LOW VOLTAGE HERE AND TOOK IT OUT AT HIGH VOLTAGE HERE, I HAD AN AMPLIFIER. AND THAT'S THE POINT CONTACT TRANSISTOR, AND THAT'S THE BIG BREAKTHROUGH DECEMBER 16, 1947. AFTER THAT, ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE. Blahut: THE TRANSISTOR IS VERY SMALL, VERY CHEAP. AT THAT TIME ONE COULD FORESEE THAT VERY COMPLICATED DEVICES COULD BE MADE OUT OF THE TRANSISTOR. John Bardeen: CERTAINLY A VERY EXCITING DAY, THE FACT YOU CAN CHANGE THE CONDUCTIVITY OF A SEMICONDUCTOR BY CURRENT FLOW...HAD IT HOOKED UP SO YOU COULD AMPLIFY VOICE AND REALLY SHOW WHAT IT COULD DO. IT IS REALLY A VERY EXCITING DAY. Pines: JOHN REALIZED WHAT WAS HAPPENING, REALIZED ITS POTENTIAL RIGHT AWAY. WENT HOME QUITE EXCITED FOR JOHN, TOLD HIS WIFE THAT SOMETHING INTERESTING HAPPENED AT THE LAB TODAY. SHE IS FOCUSED ON GETTING DINNER ON THE TABLE FOR THE FAMILY. SHE SAID 'JOHN, COULD YOU WAIT AND TELL ME ABOUT IT LATER. I REALLY HAVE TO GET DINNER READY.' HER MOMENT PASSED. BARDEEN GOT A DIFFERENT REACTION WHEN HE SHARED THE GOOD NEWS WITH SHOCKLEY. HE WAS STUNNED. Pines: I THINK HE WAS ENORMOUSLY FRUSTRATED BY THE FACT THAT BARDEEN AND BRATTAIN HAD FOUND THIS ON THEIR OWN WITHOUT ANY DIRECT INVOLVEMENT OF SHOCKLEY. BUT HE ALSO TOOK OVER IN SAYING TO BARDEEN "I WANT YOU ONLY TO WORK ON A AND B, AND KEEP YOUR COTTON PICKING HANDS OFF C, D, AND E. THAT'S MY TERRITORY". Holonyak: JOHN'S PERSONALITY WAS SUCH THAT HE WAS NOT GIVEN TO ARGUMENT. HE WAS A DEEP THINKER, AND HE WAS METICULOUS THINKER AND ALL THAT, BUT HE WASN'T A QUICK TONGUE GUY. JOHN WOULD SIT THERE AND NOT SAY ANYTHING. Hoddeson: HE WAS VERY, VERY, VERY ANGRY, BUT THE ANGER WAS MOSTLY BOTTLED UP. BARDEEN MADE A DECISION TO LEAVE BELL LABS. HE ASKED HIS FRIEND, FRED SEITZ IF HE KNEW OF ANY JOBS IN ACADEMIA. SEITZ WAS A PHYSICS PROFESSOR AT ILLINOIS. HE MADE A PROPOSAL TO THE DEAN OF THE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, WILLIAM EVERITT. Holonyak: SEITZ WENT TO BILL EVERITT AND SAID "WE HAVE A CHANCE NOW TO GET A REAL BIG GUY." Hoddeson: FRED UNDERSTOOD HOW SMART BARDEEN WAS BECAUSE HE HAD KNOWN HIM SINCE GRADUATE SCHOOL. Blahut: IT TOOK A VERY GOOD ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT, VERY GOOD PHYSICS DEPARTMENT, AND MADE THEM ABSOLUTELY THE BEST IN THE WORLD. BARDEEN NEVER FORGOT THE WAY HE WAS TREATED BY WILLIAM SHOCKLEY. YEARS LATER HE WAS SHOWING A COVER OF AN ELECTRONICS MAGAZINE TO NICK HOLONYAK, AND IT REMINDED HIM OF HIS LAST YEARS AT BELL LABS. Holonyak: HE SAID, "BOY, WALTER HATES THIS PICTURE." AND I SAID "WHY, JOHN? NOT FLATTERING OR SOMETHING?" HE LOOKED AT ME AND MADE A FACE, AND HIS HEAD WENT LIKE THIS, "NO." HE SAYS, "THAT'S WALTER'S EQUIPMENT AND OUR EXPERIMENT, AND BILL DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT." DURING THE SUMMER OF 1951, JOHN BARDEEN MOVED HIS WIFE AND THREE CHILDREN TO CHAMPAIGN, ILLINOIS. Hoddeson: THE MOST IMPORTANT THING THAT ILLINOIS OFFERED HIM WAS A SUPPORTIVE COMMUNITY IN WHICH HE COULD SOLVE THE PROBLEMS THAT HE SELECTED TO SOLVE. THE BARDEEN'S BOUGHT A HOUSE NEAR THE GOLF COURSE FOR JOHN TO ENJOY HIS FAVORITE PASTIME. BARDEEN'S LOVE OF SPORTS EXTENDED TO FOOTBALL, AND HE TOOK HIS FAMILY TO ALL THE HOME ILLINI GAMES. Bill Bardeen: WE WENT TO THE ROSE BOWL ONE YEAR WHEN ILLINOIS WAS PLAYING. HE SPENT HOURS BEING CATCHER AS I WAS A LITTLE LEAGUE PITCHER HELPING ME IMPROVE MY FAST BALL. SOMETIMES PEOPLE THINK "WELL, DID HE SIT YOU DOWN AND TEACH YOU PHYSICS AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE WHEN YOU WERE FIVE YEARS OLD?" IT WASN'T THAT WAY AT ALL. Pines: YOUR AVERAGE REALLY GREAT SCIENTIST IS NOT AN ESPECIALLY SUCCESSFUL FATHER. JOHN WAS AN AMAZINGLY SUCCESSFUL FATHER. THE FALL OF 1951, BARDEEN LED A SEMINAR ON THE TRANSISTOR. SITTING IN THE AUDIENCE WAS ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING GRADUATE STUDENT, NICK HOLONYAK. BARDEEN USED A SMALL PLASTIC BOX TO DEMONSTRATE HOW THE TRANSISTOR WORKED. WHEN HE TURNED IT ON, IT PLAYED THE TUNE "HOW DRY I AM." Holonyak: HE FLIPPED ON A SWITCH, AND THE THING WAS ON INSTANTLY. SEE, EVERYTHING THAT WE KNOW ABOUT IN ELECTRONICS IS VACUUM TUBES, YOU FLIP ON A SWITCH, AND YOU WAIT FOR EVERYTHING TO WARM UP. I ALMOST FELL OUT OF THE CHAIR BECAUSE I KNOW HOW TO DO ELECTRONICS. I AM ALREADY A GRAD STUDENT AND. I UNDERSTAND THIS STUFF, AND NOTHING WORKS LIKE THAT. UH-OH, I KNOW THIS IS DIFFERENT. I COULD SEE RIGHT AWAY THAT THIS MAN PLAYS A DIFFERENT GAME. WHEN HOLONYAK LEARNED BARDEEN WAS GOING TO SET UP A SEMICONDUCTOR LABORATORY, HE RUSHED TO JOIN THE GROUP. SOME OF HIS FELLOW GRADUATE STUDENTS LAUGHED AT THE IDEA. Holonyak: YOU ARE NUTS. THAT'S NOT GOING ANYWHERE. WELL, OF COURSE, THE JOKE NOW IS ON THEM. AT ILLINOIS, JOHN WANTED TO TACKLE A PROBLEM THAT HAD DOGGED HIM SINCE GRADUATE SCHOOL. HE WANTED TO SOLVE THE MYSTERY OF SUPERCONDUCTIVITY. Slichter: IF YOU GOT CERTAIN METALS LIKE LEAD OR TIN, VERY COLD, DOWN NEAR THE ABSOLUTE ZERO, THAT IF YOU STARTED THE ELECTRIC CURRENT FLOWING IN A WIRE, THAT THE CURRENT WOULD KEEP ON GOING EVEN IF YOU DIDN'T HAVE A BATTERY. SO IT WAS LIKE A PERPETUAL MOTION MACHINE. HE WAS CHALLENGED BY THAT THING, AND IT WAS A CHALLENGE AGAINST HIM. Leggett: IT HAD BEEN RECOGNIZED FROM THE VERY START AS A KEY MYSTERY OF CONDENSED Matter PHYSICS. JUST ABOUT EVERYONE WHO HAD ANY KIND OF REPUTATION IN NOT JUST condensed matter PHYSICS, BUT PHYSICS in GENERAL HAD A SHOT at EXPLAINING SUPERCONDUCTIVITY. BARDEEN'S THOUGHTS WERE TAKEN AWAY FROM SUPERCONDUCTIVITY WHEN HE HEARD THE NEWS ON THE MORNING OF NOVEMBER 1, 1956. HE DROPPED A FRYING PAN OF EGGS WHEN HE LEARNED HE HAD WON THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS. BARDEEN, BRATTAIN AND SHOCKLEY WON FOR THE INVENTION OF THE TRANSISTOR. WHEN BARDEEN RETURNED FROM STOCKHOLM, HE ACHIEVED ANOTHER LIFELONG GOAL, A HOLE-IN-ONE. YEARS LATER, CHARLES SLICHTER WAS AMAZED TO LEARN THAT SOME OF BARDEEN'S GOLFING BUDDIES DID NOT KNOW HE HAD WON A NOBEL PRIZE. TRUE TO FORM, BARDEEN DID NOT BRAG ON THE COURSE. Slichter: MY FEELING WAS THAT SOMEHOW OR ANOTHER, IF I HAD WON A NOBEL PRIZE, I WOULD MANAGE TO GET IT IN THE CONVERSATION SOMEHOW. IN THE NEXT THREE MONTHS, BARDEEN'S GOOD LUCK STREAK CONTINUED. HE ANNOUNCED HE, ALONG WITH ROBERT SCHRIEFFER AND LEON COOPER, HAD SOLVED A 45 YEAR OLD MYSTERY THAT PUZZLED THE GREATEST MINDS IN SCIENCE. Break 3 BARDEEN WAS EAGER TO GET BACK TO WORK AT ILLINOIS AFTER WINNING THE 1956 NOBEL PRIZE. HE FELT HIS TEAM WAS CLOSE TO AN ANSWER ABOUT THE MYSTERY OF SUPERCONDUCTIVITY. Bill Bardeen: WHEN THEY LEARNED A LOT ABOUT WHAT WAS GOING ON, BUT HADN'T QUITE PUT ALL THE PIECES TOGETHER, MY FATHER HAD A COCKTAIL PARTY FOR SOME VISITING RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS. MY FATHER SEEMED TO BE STARING OFF INTO SPACE EVERY SO OFTEN AND DIDN'T SAY VERY MUCH. YOU COULD TELL THAT MY FATHER'S MENTAL WHEELS WERE TURNING. SATURDAY MORNING, I THINK SCHRIEFFER GOT A CALL RATHER EARLY IN THE MORNING SAYING "I THINK I HAVE SOLVED IT." BARDEEN RAN INTO CHARLES SLICHTER IN THE HALLWAY OF THE PHYSICS BUILDING. Slichter: I WAITED FOR HIM TO SAY WHAT IT WAS HE WAS PLANNING, AND HE FINALLY SAID "WELL, I THINK WE HAVE FIGURED OUT SUPERCONDUCTIVITY." THAT WAS, I SUPPOSE, ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING TIMES, EVENTS IN MY WHOLE SCIENTIFIC LIFE. BARDEEN SHARED THE CREDIT WITH DOCTORAL STUDENT, BOB SCHRIEFFER, AND HIS POST-DOC, LEON COOPER. IT BECAME KNOWN AS "BCS." Slichter: IT IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENTS OF THE PREVIOUS CENTURY. THERE IS NO DOUBT ABOUT IT. FOR THE FIRST TIME, SCIENTISTS UNDERSTOOD ON A MICROSCOPIC LEVEL HOW MATERIAL BECAME A SUPER CONDUCTOR. Pines: WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE IS TO BE ABLE TO MAKE A POWER LINE OUT OF SUPER CONDUCTING WIRES. Slichter: YOU WOULDN'T WASTE ANY OF THE ENERGY TRYING TO GET THE ELECTRICITY FROM THE PLACE WHERE YOU GENERATE IT TO THE PLACE WHERE YOU USE IT. ON OCTOBER 19, 1972, BARDEEN LEARNED HE HAD BECOME the FIRST PERSON TO WIN A SECOND NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS. BARDEEN, COOPER AND SCHRIEFFER WON FOR THEIR THEORY OF SUPERCONDUCTIVITY. Baym: Leo Kadenoff SENT A WONDERFUL NOTE SAYING ON THE SECOND PRIZE "CONGRATULATIONS, JOHN. WITH WITH THE THIRD, YOU GET TO KEEP THE KING." Bill Bardeen: 1956, THE KING ASKED MY MOTHER, "WELL, WHERE IS THE FAMILY?" AND SHE SAID "WELL, THEY ARE AT HOME IN SCHOOL." HE SAID, "WELL NEXT TIME BRING THEM." BARDEEN RETURNED TO ILLINOIS AND CONTINUED TEACHING UNTIL MARCH OF 1975. IN HIS RETIREMENT, HE CONTINUED TO BE A LEADER IN SCIENCE BY SERVING AS AN ADVISOR TO THE YOUNG HAILOID COMPANY WHICH BECAME XEROX. HE WAS ALSO CLOSE TO THE SONY CORPORATION AND MADE MANY TRIPS TO JAPAN. JOHN BARDEEN PASSED AWAY ON JANUARY 30, 1991. Baym: JOHN WAS FULFILLED, BUT CERTAINLY JOHN WAS STILL DRIVEN. HE WAS after NOBEL PRIZE NUMBER THREE. I THINK HE WAS ONE OF THE GREAT SCIENTISTS OF ALL TIME. Blahut: JOHN BARDEEN DID A LOT FOR THE WORLD. HE DID A LOT FOR CIVILIZATION. HE DID A LOT FOR THE FUTURE. Holonyak: AND HE WASN'T THERE TRYING TO MAKE THE WORLD BETTER FOR BARDEEN. HE WAS TRYING TO MAKE THE WORLD BETTER BECAUSE WE HAVE TO. Slichter: HE WASN'T JUST A SCIENTIST. HE WAS TRULY A GREAT HUMAN BEING.

Education and early life

Bardeen was born in Madison, Wisconsin, on May 23, 1908.[9] He was the son of Charles Bardeen, the first dean of the University of Wisconsin Medical School.

Bardeen attended University of Wisconsin High School in Madison. He graduated from the school in 1923 at age 15.[9] He could have graduated several years earlier, but this was postponed because he took courses at another high school and because of his mother's death. Bardeen entered the University of Wisconsin in 1923. While in college, he joined the Zeta Psi fraternity. He raised a part of the needed membership fees by playing billiards. Bardeen was initiated as a member of Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society. Not wanting to be an academic like his father, Bardeen chose engineering. He also felt that engineering had good job prospects.[10]

Bardeen received his Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering in 1928 from the University of Wisconsin.[11] Despite taking a year off to work in Chicago, he graduated in 1928.[12] Taking all the graduate courses in physics and mathematics that had interested him, Bardeen graduated in five years instead of the usual four. This allowed him time to complete his master's thesis, supervised by Leo J. Peters. He received his Master of Science degree in electrical engineering in 1929 from Wisconsin.[3][11]

Bardeen furthered his studies by staying on at Wisconsin, but he eventually went to work for Gulf Research Laboratories, the research arm of the Gulf Oil Corporation that was based in Pittsburgh.[8] From 1930 to 1933, Bardeen worked there on the development of methods for the interpretation of magnetic and gravitational surveys.[9] He worked as a geophysicist. After the work failed to keep his interest, he applied and was accepted to the graduate program in mathematics at Princeton University.[10]

As a graduate student, Bardeen studied mathematics and physics. Under physicist Eugene Wigner, he wrote his thesis on a problem in solid-state physics. Before completing his thesis, he was offered a position as junior fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University in 1935. He spent the next three years there, from 1935 to 1938, working with to-be Nobel laureates in physics John Hasbrouck van Vleck and Percy Williams Bridgman on problems in cohesion and electrical conduction in metals,and also did some work on level density of nuclei. He received his Ph.D. in mathematical physics from Princeton in 1936.[9]

Career and research

World War II service

From 1941 to 1944, Bardeen headed the group working on magnetic mines and torpedoes and mine and torpedo countermeasures at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory. During this period, his wife Jane gave birth to a son (Bill, born in 1941) and a daughter (Betsy, born in 1944).[13]

Bell Labs

John Bardeen, William Shockley and Walter Brattain at Bell Labs, 1948

In October 1945, Bardeen began work at Bell Labs as a member of a solid-state physics group led by William Shockley and chemist Stanley Morgan. Other personnel working in the group were Walter Brattain, physicist Gerald Pearson, chemist Robert Gibney, electronics expert Hilbert Moore and several technicians. He moved his family to Summit, New Jersey.[14]

The assignment of the group was to seek a solid-state alternative to fragile glass vacuum tube amplifiers. Their first attempts were based on Shockley's ideas about using an external electrical field on a semiconductor to affect its conductivity. These experiments mysteriously failed every time in all sorts of configurations and materials. The group was at a standstill until Bardeen suggested a theory that invoked surface states that prevented the field from penetrating the semiconductor. The group changed its focus to study these surface states, meeting almost daily to discuss the work. The rapport of the group was excellent and ideas were freely exchanged.[15] By the winter of 1946, they had enough results that Bardeen submitted a paper on the surface states to Physical Review. Brattain started experiments to study the surface states through observations made while shining a bright light on the semiconductor's surface. This led to several more papers (one of them co-authored with Shockley), which estimated the density of the surface states to be more than enough to account for their failed experiments. The pace of the work picked up significantly when they started to surround point contacts between the semiconductor and the conducting wires with electrolytes. Moore built a circuit that allowed them to vary the frequency of the input signal easily and suggested that they use glycol borate (gu), a viscous chemical that did not evaporate. Finally, they began to get some evidence of power amplification when Pearson, acting on a suggestion by Shockley,[16] put a voltage on a droplet of gu placed across a p–n junction.

Invention of the transistor

A stylized replica of the first transistor invented at Bell Labs on December 23, 1947

On December 23, 1947, Bardeen and Brattain were working without Shockley when they succeeded in creating a point-contact transistor that achieved amplification. By the next month, Bell Labs' patent attorneys started to work on the patent applications.[17]

Bell Labs' attorneys soon discovered that Shockley's field effect principle had been anticipated and patented in 1930 by Julius Lilienfeld, who filed his MESFET-like patent in Canada on October 22, 1925.[18]

Shockley publicly took the lion's share of the credit for the invention of the transistor; this led to a deterioration of Bardeen's relationship with him.[19] Bell Labs management, however, consistently presented all three inventors as a team. Shockley eventually infuriated and alienated Bardeen and Brattain, essentially blocking the two from working on the junction transistor. Bardeen began pursuing a theory for superconductivity and left Bell Labs in 1951. Brattain refused to work with Shockley further and was assigned to another group. Neither Bardeen nor Brattain had much to do with the development of the transistor beyond the first year after its invention.[20][21]

The "transistor" (a portmanteau of "transconductance" and "resistor") was 1/50 the size of the vacuum tubes it replaced in televisions and radios, used far less power, was far more reliable, and it allowed electrical devices to become more compact.[8]

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

A commemorative plaque remembering John Bardeen and the theory of superconductivity, at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

By 1951, Bardeen was looking for a new job. Fred Seitz, a friend of Bardeen, convinced the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign to make Bardeen an offer of $10,000 a year. Bardeen accepted the offer and left Bell Labs,[17] joining the engineering and physics faculties at Illinois in 1951, where he was professor of electrical engineering and of physics.[5]

At Illinois, he established two major research programs, one in the electrical engineering department and one in the physics department. The research program in the electrical engineering department dealt with both experimental and theoretical aspects of semiconductors, and the research program in the physics department dealt with theoretical aspects of macroscopic quantum systems, particularly superconductivity and quantum liquids.[22]

He was an active professor at Illinois from 1951 to 1975 and then became professor emeritus.[8] In his later life, Bardeen remained active in academic research, during which time he focused on understanding the flow of electrons in charge density waves (CDWs) through metallic linear chain compounds. His proposals[23][24][25] that CDW electron transport is a collective quantum phenomenon (see Macroscopic quantum phenomena) were initially greeted with skepticism.[26] However, experiments reported in 2012[27] show oscillations in CDW current versus magnetic flux through tantalum trisulfide rings, similar to the behavior of superconducting quantum interference devices (see SQUID and Aharonov–Bohm effect), lending credence to the idea that collective CDW electron transport is fundamentally quantum in nature.[28][29] (See quantum mechanics.) Bardeen continued his research throughout the 1980s, and published articles in Physical Review Letters[30] and Physics Today[31] less than a year before he died.

A collection of Bardeen's personal papers are held by the University of Illinois Archives.[32]

Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956

In 1956, John Bardeen shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with William Shockley of Semiconductor Laboratory of Beckman Instruments and Walter Brattain of Bell Telephone Laboratories "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect".[33]

At the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm, Brattain and Shockley received their awards that night from King Gustaf VI Adolf. Bardeen brought only one of his three children to the Nobel Prize ceremony. King Gustav chided Bardeen because of this, and Bardeen assured the King that the next time he would bring all his children to the ceremony. He kept his promise.[34]

BCS theory

In 1957, Bardeen, in collaboration with Leon Cooper and his doctoral student John Robert Schrieffer, proposed the standard theory of superconductivity known as the BCS theory (named for their initials).[8]

Josephson effect controversy

Bardeen became interested in superconducting tunnelling in the summer of 1960 after consulting for the General Electric Research Laboratory in Schenectady, New York where he learned about experiments done by Ivar Giaever at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute which suggested that electrons from a normal material could tunnel into a superconducting one.[35]: 222–223 

In June 8, 1962, Brian Josephson, then 23, submitted to Physics Letters his prediction of a super-current flow across a barrier,[36] effect which later became known as the Josephson effect. Bardeen challenged Josephson's theory on a note in his own paper received ten days later by Physical Review Letters[35]: 222–225 :[37]

In a recent note, Josephson uses a somewhat similar formulation to discuss the possibility of superfluid flow across the tunneling region, in which no quasi-particles are created. However, as pointed out by the author (reference 3), pairing does not extend into the barrier, so that there can be no such superfluid flow.

The matter was further discussed on the 8th International Conference on Low Temperature Physics held September 16 to 22, 1962 at Queen Mary University of London. While Josephson was presenting his theory, Bardeen rose to describe his objections. After an intense debate both men were unable to reach a common understanding, and at points Josephson repeatedly asked Bardeen, "Did you calculate it? No? I did."[35]: 225–226 

In 1963, experimental evidence and further theoretical clarifications were discovered supporting the Josephson effect, notably in a paper by Philip W. Anderson and John Rowell from Bell Labs.[38] After this, Bardeen came to accept Josephson's theory and publicly withdrew his previous opposition to it at a conference held in August 1963. Bardeen also invited Josephson as a postdoc in Illinois for the academic year of 1965–1966, and later nominated Josephson and Giaever for the Nobel Prize in Physics, which they received in 1973.[35]: 226 

Nobel Prize in Physics in 1972

In 1972, Bardeen shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Leon N Cooper of Brown University and John Robert Schrieffer of the University of Pennsylvania "for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory".[39] This was Bardeen's second Nobel Prize in Physics. He became the first person to win two Nobel Prizes in the same field.[40]

Bardeen brought his three children to the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm.[34] Bardeen gave much of his Nobel Prize money to fund the Fritz London Memorial Lectures at Duke University.[41]

In the late 1960s, Bardeen felt that Cooper and Schrieffer deserved the Nobel prize for BCS. He was concerned that they might not be awarded because of the Nobel Committee's reticence to award the same person twice, which would be his case as a co-author of the theory. Bardeen nominated scientists who worked on superconducting tunneling effects such as the Josephson effect for the prize in 1967: Leo Esaki, Ivar Giaever and Brian Josephson. He recognized that because the tunneling developments depended on superconductivity, it would increase the chances that BCS itself would be awarded first. He also reasoned that the Nobel Committee had a predilection for multinational teams, which was the case for his tunneling nominees, each being from a different country. Bardeen renewed the nominations in 1971, 1972, when BCS received the prize, and finally 1973, when tunneling was awarded.[35]: 230-231 

He is the only double  laureate in physics, and one of three double laureates of the same prize; the others are Frederick Sanger who won the 1958 and 1980 Prizes in Chemistry and Karl Barry Sharpless who won the 2001 and 2022 Prizes in chemistry.[42]

Other awards

In addition to being awarded the Nobel prize twice, Bardeen has numerous other awards including:

Xerox

Bardeen was also an important adviser to Xerox Corporation. Though quiet by nature, he took the uncharacteristic step of urging Xerox executives to keep their California research center, Xerox PARC, afloat when the parent company was suspicious that its research center would amount to little.

Personal life

Bardeen married Jane Maxwell on July 18, 1938. While at Princeton, he met Jane during a visit to his old friends in Pittsburgh.

Bardeen was a scientist with a very unassuming personality. While he served as a professor for almost 40 years at the University of Illinois, he was best remembered by neighbors for hosting cookouts where he would prepare food for his friends, many of whom were unaware of his accomplishments at the university. He would always ask his guests if they liked the hamburger bun toasted (since he liked his that way). He enjoyed playing golf and going on picnics with his family. Lillian Hoddeson said that because he "differed radically from the popular stereotype of 'genius' and was uninterested in appearing other than ordinary, the public and the media often overlooked him."[5]

When Bardeen was asked about his beliefs during a 1988 interview, he responded: "I am not a religious person, and so do not think about it very much". However, he has also said: "I feel that science cannot provide an answer to the ultimate questions about the meaning and purpose of life." Bardeen did believe in a code of moral values and behavior.[49] John Bardeen's children were taken to church by his wife, who taught Sunday school and was a church elder.[35]: 168–169  Despite this, he and his wife made it clear that they did not have faith in an afterlife and other religious ideas.[50] He was the father of James M. Bardeen, William A. Bardeen, and daughter Elizabeth.

Death

Bardeen died of heart disease at age 82 at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 30, 1991.[51] Although he lived in Champaign-Urbana, he had come to Boston for medical consultation.[8] Bardeen and his wife Jane (1907–1997) are buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wisconsin.[citation needed] They were survived by three children, James, William and Elizabeth Bardeen Greytak, and six grandchildren.[8]

Legacy

Near the end of this decade, when they begin enumerating the names of the people who had the greatest impact on the 20th century, the name of John Bardeen, who died last week, has to be near, or perhaps even arguably at, the top of the list ... Mr. Bardeen shared two Nobel Prizes and has been awarded numerous other honors. But what greater honor can there be when each of us can look all around us and everywhere see the reminders of a man whose genius has made our lives longer, healthier and better.

Chicago Tribune editorial, February 3, 1991

In honor of Bardeen, the engineering quadrangle at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is named the Bardeen Quad.

Also in honor of Bardeen, Sony Corporation endowed a $3 million John Bardeen professorial chair at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, beginning in 1990.[51] Sony Corporation owed much of its success to commercializing Bardeen's transistors in portable TVs and radios, and had worked with Illinois researchers. As of 2022, the John Bardeen Professor is Yurii Vlasov.[52]

At the time of Bardeen's death, then-University of Illinois chancellor Morton Weir said, "It is a rare person whose work changes the life of every American; John's did."[40]

Bardeen was honored on a March 6, 2008, United States postage stamp as part of the "American Scientists" series designed by artist Victor Stabin. The $0.41 stamp was unveiled in a ceremony at the University of Illinois.[53] His citation reads: "Theoretical physicist John Bardeen (1908–1991) shared the Nobel Prize in Physics twice—in 1956, as co-inventor of the transistor and in 1972, for the explanation of superconductivity. The transistor paved the way for all modern electronics, from computers to microchips. Diverse applications of superconductivity include infrared sensors and medical imaging systems." The other scientists on the "American Scientists" sheet include biochemist Gerty Cori, chemist Linus Pauling and astronomer Edwin Hubble.

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