John Bardeen
- Born: May 23, 1908 (Madison, Wisconsin)
- Died: January 30, 1991 (Boston, Massachusetts)
Education
- 1928: BS, University of Wisconsin, Madison (Electrical Engineering)
- 1929: MS, University of Wisconsin, Madison (Electrical Engineering)
- 1936: PhD, Princeton University (Mathematics and Physics)
Major Positions
- 1930–1933: Gulf Research and Development Corporation, Geophysicist
- 1935–1938: Harvard University, Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows
- 1938–1941: University of Minnesota, Assistant Professor of Physics
- 1941–1945: United States Navy, Physicist, Naval Ordnance Laboratory
- 1945–1951: Bell Laboratories, Research Physicist
- 1951–1975: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics
- 1975–1991: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Physics
Other Positions
- 1959–1962: President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC), Member
- 1968–1968: American Physical Society, President
Selected Part-Time Positions
- 1982–1983: Member, White House Science Council
Selected Awards and Honors
- 1954: American Physical Society, Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize
- 1954: National Academy of Sciences, Member
- 1956: Nobel Prize in Physics
- 1965: National Medal of Science
- 1972: Nobel Prize in Physics
Archival Resources
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University Archives, Urbana, Illinois
Online Finding Aid
Oral History Interviews
- 1977: Available Online
- 1980: Available Online
- 1984: Available Online
Resources on the Web
Audio Excerpts: 1977 Interview with Lillian Hoddeson
Lillian Hoddeson, "John Bardeen and the Theory of Superconductivity"
Published Resources
David Pines, "John Bardeen: 1908-1991", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences
Michael O'Riordan and Lillian Hoddeson, Crystal Fire: The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1997)
Lillian Hoddeson and Vicki Daitch, True Genius: The Life and Science of John Bardeen (Washington, DC: Joseph Henry Press, 2002)
J. Bardeen, "Development of Concepts in Superconductivity," in BCS: 50 Years, ed. Leon N. Cooper and Dmitri Feldman (Singapore: World Scientific: 2011), 33-40
