# John Bardine **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 13, 2003, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-bardine/161057 "2003-03-13T07:36:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mines\_Mystique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mines\_Mystique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mines_Mystique)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-bardine/161057/1 "2003-03-13T07:36:30Z")
Anybody know what he did that was so special? About all I know is that he is an electrical engineer and he has won a Nobel Prize, but that’s not what is really interesting about him. I haven’t been able to find anything on the net either. Andrew ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-bardine/161057/2 "2003-03-13T07:44:33Z")
Bardeen, along with William Shockley and Walter Brattain got the Nobel for inventing the point contact transistor. From _Britannica_"The invention of the transistor in 1947 by John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain,and William B. Shockley of the Bell research staff provided the first of a series of new devices with remarkable potential for expanding the utility of electronic equipment." ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-bardine/161057/3 "2003-03-13T07:45:42Z")
He won the Noble Prize for the co-invention of the bipolar junction transistor, and again for work on superconductivity. One of the rare few to win _two_ Nobel Prizes. I’d call that specail.