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John Bardeen
John Bardeen, Ph.D. (May 23, 1908 – January 30, 1991) was an American physicist and electrical engineer, who won 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 Neil Cooper and John Robert...
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| 1956 | "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect" | Transistor |
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A transistor is a semiconductor device commonly used to amplify or switch electronic signals. A transistor is made of a solid piece of a semiconductor material, with at least three terminals for connection to an external circuit. A voltage or...
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William Shockley | ||
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| 1972 | "for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory" | BCS theory |
BCS theory is the first microscopic theory of superconductivity, proposed by Bardeen, Cooper, and Schrieffer in 1957 since the discovery of superconductivity in 1911. It describes superconductivity as a microscopic effect caused by a "condensation"...
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Leon Cooper | |||
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