John Bardeen
Educator, Physicist, Scientist, Inventor
Childhood & Early Life
- John Bardeen was born in Madison, Wisconsin, on May 23, 1908.
- John’s brilliance was conspicuous from a young age. He was so intelligent for his age that his parents decided to have him skip several grades at school.
- Whenever John was just 12 years old, his mother became severely ill with cancer. Due to the fact that John's father kept the information about his mother dying, he was shocked when she passed away. His father, in an attempt to provide for his children a normal life, quickly remarried.
Education and Contribution to Science
- John attended the University High School in Madison for many years, and then graduated from Madison Central High School in 1923.
- Bardeen earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin ( Madison ) and obtained his doctorate in 1936 in mathematical physics from Princeton University.
- John Bardeen played a major role into science because he was the co-inventor of the transistor (1947), an influential invention that changed the course of history for computers and electronics. He also co-developed a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity known as the BCS theory.
Summary of John Bardeen
Work Citation
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