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 ...

John Bardeen was the thinker, a man who could look at an event no one else comprehended and go beyond common understanding to explain it. Walter Brattain was the tinkerer, a builder who could put ...

In 1947, Bardeen, along with Walter Brattain and William P. Schockley, developed the first semiconductor transistor at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J. The invention was first used ...

It was built by Walter Brattain. Before Brattain started, John Bardeen told him that they would need two metal contacts within .002 inches of each other -- about the thickness of a sheet of paper.

The group was led by William Shockley and included Walter Brattain, John Bardeen, and others, physicists who had worked with quantum theory, especially in solids. The team was talented and worked ...

This was the very first transistor ever made, built by Walter Brattain with the help of John Bardeen. It was made of two gold foil contacts sitting on a germanium crystal. Current coming in one ...

US physicist John Bardeen is the only laureate so far who has been awarded the prize twice, in 1956 and 1972. This year's ...

It is widely agreed, for instance, that William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain invented the first transistor in 1947. Such inventions and discoveries were based on research conducted ...