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Bart Barnes. "John Bardeen, Nobelist, Inventor of Transistor, Dies." The Washington Post. Washingtonpost Newsweek Interactive. 1991. HighBeam Research. 2 Nov. 2012 <http://www.highbeam.com>.
Bart Barnes. "John Bardeen, Nobelist, Inventor of Transistor, Dies." The Washington Post. 1991. HighBeam Research. (November 2, 2012). http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1047095.html
Bart Barnes. "John Bardeen, Nobelist, Inventor of Transistor, Dies." The Washington Post. Washingtonpost Newsweek Interactive. 1991. Retrieved November 02, 2012 from HighBeam Research: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1047095.html
John Bardeen, 82, the last of the three surviving physicists who developed the transistor and a two-time Nobel Prize winner, died of a heart attack yesterday at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. A professor emeritus at the University of Illinois, he was in Boston for medical consultation and diagnosis when stricken.
A theoretical physicist, Dr. Bardeen shared the 1956 Nobel Prize with William P. Shockley and Walter H. Brattain for their 1948 development of the transistor, a device that revolutionized the electronics industry and became the basic element in products ranging from missiles to telephones and computers.
He was awarded his second Nobel Prize in 1972 for …
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