https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj "True Genius" by Lillian Hoddeson and Vicki Daitch en-us 2022-02-02 20:15:57 UTC 2025-10-09 15:25:35 UTC hello@padlet.com chansam000 https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2109870855 Hoddeson, Lillian, and Vicki Daitch. True Genius : the Life and Science of John Bardeen : the Only Winner of Two Nobel Prizes in Physics. Joseph Henry Press, 2002.]]> 2022-03-23 14:41:35 UTC https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2109870855 chansam000 https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2109997664 (November 1, 1956) John Bardeen and his two colleagues earn the Nobel Prize for the invention of the transistor, a tiny semiconductor device]]> 2022-03-23 15:39:24 UTC https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2109997664 chansam000 https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2110023653 John attends Madison Central High School and graduates in 1923]]> 2022-03-23 15:51:05 UTC https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2110023653 chansam000 https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2118418806 (March 1933) John meets Jane Maxwell, "a slim and articulate twenty-six-year-old woman." (43) 
He has a dinner with her before traveling to Princeton. 
Held a teaching degree at Carnegie tech, and was working towards her Master's degree in Zoology]]> 2022-03-29 02:32:12 UTC https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2118418806 chansam000 https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2118423098 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/1956/bardeen/biographical ]]> 2022-03-29 02:34:52 UTC https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2118423098 chansam000 https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2118428037 https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/media/Spark+of+GeniusA+The+Story+of+John+Bardeen/1_bzcih02j ]]> 2022-03-29 02:38:01 UTC https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2118428037 chansam000 https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2118452671 (One day later, March 1933) After the dinner with Jane, John drives to Princeton, "but the campus was not deserted. Most of the buildings were still lit on that late summer night." (45)

]]> 2022-03-29 02:54:44 UTC https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2118452671 chansam000 https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2118468205 On June 12 (1935), Charles Bardeen passes away due to a form of pancreatic cancer that spread to his liver. "He was buried beside Althea [his wife], under a boulder from Lake Mendota."
(64)]]> 2022-03-29 03:05:42 UTC https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2118468205 chansam000 https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2118479062 (January 1936) John Bardeen receives his Ph. D. in mathematical physics from Princeton]]> 2022-03-29 03:13:25 UTC https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2118479062 chansam000 https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2118594740 (July 18, 1938)
John Bardeen and Jane Hall are wed with "only a few friends and family" present (85)]]> 2022-03-29 04:48:26 UTC https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2118594740 chansam000 https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2121680363
(Summer 1945) John Bardeen accepts a job at Bell Labs after deciding for six weeks. He said it was a "difficult choice to make" because "[he] enjoyed [his] work and associations in Minnesota, and [he] like[d] living in a university community." (112)]]> 2022-03-30 15:00:29 UTC https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2121680363 chansam000 https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2121945156 (July 26, 1947) John, one of his colleagues, and Jane travel to Europe for vacation and to meet colleagues. They visit Paris and Switzerland to talk with other scientists, learn new things, and share ideas.]]> 2022-03-30 17:12:06 UTC https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2121945156 chansam000 https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2122316737 (June 30, 1948) The invention of the transistor is finally released to the public, and the implications are massive. Telephones can finally be used without a vacuum tube, and when electrical signals are put through it, they are amplified. ]]> 2022-03-30 21:20:19 UTC https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2122316737 chansam000 https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2122323420 (April 28, 1951) John Bardeen accepts a job offer at Illinois to support his family after the lower working wages due to the GI Bill. "Bardeen's carefully worded three-page letter... began with a simple explanation of the Illinois offer. He emphasized the university's promise to be supportive of his research, no matter what direction it took." Bardeen also noted that "the 'financial prospects appear[ed] to be as good as those at the [war] Laboratories." (160)]]> 2022-03-30 21:27:53 UTC https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2122323420 chansam000 https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2122326915 (January 30, 1991) John Bardeen dies in Boston, Massachusetts at the ripe age of 82, due to heart disease and related conditions. He is currently buried in Forest Hill Cemetery. ]]> 2022-03-30 21:32:04 UTC https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2122326915 chansam000 https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2125757585 (October 6, 1989) Sony endows "a $3 million chair at the University of Illinois in his name." (251) Sony said that "John Bardeen is a great figure in science, and this is our way of honoring him."]]> 2022-04-01 16:50:06 UTC https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2125757585 chansam000 https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2125767702 https://www.bell-labs.com/about/awards/1956-nobel-prize-physics/#gref
John Bardeen, William Shockley, and Walter Brattain are working together on the concept of the superconductor. ]]> 2022-04-01 16:57:45 UTC https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2125767702 chansam000 https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2125772159 (Early Spring 1951) Bardeen accepts an advisory post with the Office of Naval Research under a personal services contract, and he agreed to consult without compensation as part of the Panel of Solid State Physics. 
He had maintained ties with the government over the years. ]]> 2022-04-01 17:01:03 UTC https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2125772159 chansam000 https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2125776276 (1965) John Bardeen is appointed to the President's Commission on the Patent System. He will be the only scientist among the inventors, businessmen, and attorneys. 

]]> 2022-04-01 17:04:07 UTC https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2125776276 chansam000 https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2125778140 (Late 1965) President Lyndon Johnson honors Bardeen with the National Medal of Science, "the nation's highest award for scientific achievement... The medal [recognizes] both the present implications and the (probable) future influence of a scientist's accumulated work." (260)]]> 2022-04-01 17:05:31 UTC https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2125778140 chansam000 https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2125811770 https://www.energy.gov/science/doe-explainssuperconductivity]]> 2022-04-01 17:29:39 UTC https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2125811770 chansam000 https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2125814016 https://www.explainthatstuff.com/howtransistorswork.html]]> 2022-04-01 17:31:15 UTC https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2125814016 chansam000 https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2125816799 (1975) John Bardeen finally retires from teaching at the University of Illinois.]]> 2022-04-01 17:33:11 UTC https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2125816799 chansam000 https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2125819128 (1972) John Bardeen receives his second Nobel Prize award for formulating the theory of superconductivity with two of his colleagues, Leon Cooper and John Schrieffer.]]> 2022-04-01 17:34:55 UTC https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2125819128 chansam000 https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2126286482 (1975) Bardeen was one of the first people to travel into Mainland China for a cultural exchange. "In Xian, where the political types (CCP Party cadres) seemed especially intimidating to their own Chinese physicists, John made sure that the latter were treated as intellectual equals to the American physicists, and thereby emboldened them in their research and teaching." (277)]]> 2022-04-02 06:15:14 UTC https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2126286482 chansam000 https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2126287816 (1977) Bardeen shares some of his views in India about the role of science in society, since he believes that "science should set an example of international cooperation rather than competition." He also believes that science should help improve the quality of life for people of all nations, not just the most wealthy ones. (278)]]> 2022-04-02 06:18:52 UTC https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2126287816 chansam000 https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2126290157 (1987) Bardeen and his old colleague Schrieffer write a joint letter to the New York Times in response to an editorial that had appeared in the news. The editoral suggested delaying "the [Super Hadron Collider], pointing out that many questions about the high-temperature superconductivity remained and that waiting until answers were found could derail the project."
However, Bardeen and Schrieffer argued against it. (280)]]> 2022-04-02 06:25:41 UTC https://padlet.com/chansam000/qm107ag1mnqi14hj/wish/2126290157