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John Bardeen

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An American physicist and electrical engineer, and the only person to win the Nobel Prize in Physics twice. He won his first in 1956 for co-inventing the transistor at Bell Labs. He shared his second in 1972 with Leon Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for developing the BCS theory, which provided the first comprehensive quantum mechanical explanation of superconductivity.

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