John Bardeen and the King of Sweden
Today I dediced to write about John Bardeen (1908 - 1991) [1] , brilliant American Physicist. Up to the moment, he is the only person who has ever won the Nobel Prize in Physics, twice!!! The first time in 1956 together with William Schockley (1910 - 1989) and Walter Brattain (1902 - 1987) for the invention of the transistor (that simply revolutionized the electronic industry!!!) ... (Image from http://www.nobelprize.org/ ) ... and again in 1972 with Leon N Cooper (born 1930 - ) and John Robert Schrieffer (born 1931) for the theory of conventional supercoductivity, known ad BCS theory (from their intitials). (Image from http://cerncourier.com/ ) About John Bardeen there is a very funny anectode, that I heard the first time from one of my Physics Teacher at the University. The first time that Bardeen received the Nobel Prize, at the ceremony in Stockholm he brought only one of his three children. A pretty unsual thing, since you would b...
