Today’s quote is from John Bardeen, born today 1991 in Madison, Wisconsin. Bardeen was an American engineer and physicist. He is the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon N Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity known as the BCS theory.
The transistor revolutionized the electronics industry, making possible the development of almost every modern electronic device, from telephones to computers, and ushering in the Information Age. Bardeen’s developments in superconductivity—for which he was awarded his second Nobel Prize—are used in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR), medical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and superconducting quantum circuits. Bardeen received a PhD in physics from Princeton University. After serving in World War II, he was a researcher at Bell Labs, and a professor at the University of Illinois. In 1990, Bardeen appeared on Life magazine’s list of “100 Most Influential Americans of the Century.”
“The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.”
Quick Take – A group of minds working together to solve a problem is exponential in scope, not accumulative…
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Other Birthdays Today –
1052 Philip I of France, King of the Franks (1060-1108), born in Champagne-et-Fontaine, France (d. 1108)
1707 Carolus Linnaeus [Carl von Linné], Swedish botanist, explorer and the Father of Taxonomy, born in Råshult, Sweden (d. 1778)
1824 Ambrose Burnside, American soldier, industrialist and politician (Governor of Rhode Island, 1866-69) who popularized sideburns, born in Liberty, Indiana (d. 1881)
1883 Douglas Fairbanks, American actor (The Mark of Zorro, 3 Musketeers, Robin Hood), born in Denver, Colorado (d. 1939)
1908 John Bardeen, American physicist, electrical engineer and co-inventor of the transistor (Nobel 1956, 1972), born in Madison, Wisconsin (d. 1991)
1928 Rosemary Clooney, American singer (“Come On-a My House”), and actress (White Christmas), born in Maysville, Kentucky (d. 2002)
1951 Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess player (world champion 1975-85, 93-99), born in Zlatoust, Russia
1952 ‘Marvelous’ Marvin Hagler, American boxer (undisputed World Middleweight champion 1980-87; second-longest unified C’ship reign in history), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 2021)
1958 Drew Carey, American actor & comedian (Drew Carey Show), born in Cleveland, Ohio
1974 Jewel Kilcher, American Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter (“Pieces Of You”; “You Were Meant For Me”; “Standing Still”), born in Payson, Utah
1974 Ken Jennings, American game show contestant, born in Edmonds, Washington
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