* Astronomy

John Bardeen FRS (May 23, 1908 - January 30, 1991) was an American physicist and electrical engineer, the only person to have 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 Schrieffer for a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity known as the BCS theory. 
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Spark of Genius: The Story of John Bardeen at the University of Illinois

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