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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

John Bardeen

Title:

Professor of Electrical Engineering & Physics

Affiliation:

University of Illinois

Urbana,Illinois  USA

Gender:

Male

Year Deceased:

1991

Award Discipline:

Physical Sciences

Award Year:

1965

Citation:

"For his brilliant contributions to the theory of electrical conductivity in solid materials, and especially those which led to the development of a successful theory of superconductivity."

Presented by President Johnson at a White House ceremony on February 10, 1966. Note: Dr. Bardeen also received a Nobel in 1956 in Physics.

Nobel Laureate:

Physics, 1956
Physics, 1972

 

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