Timeline Assignment - John Bardeen

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  • Born in Wisconsin

    Born in Wisconsin

  • Graduated high school at age 15

    Graduated high school at age 15

  • Recieved a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin

    Recieved a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin

  • Received a master of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin

    Received a master of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin

  • Worked for Gulf Research Labratories as a geophysicist

    Worked for Gulf Research Labratories as a geophysicist

  • Accepted to the mathematics graduate program at Princeton University

    Accepted to the mathematics graduate program at Princeton University

  • Received a Ph.D. in mathematical physics from Princeton

    Received a Ph.D. in mathematical physics from Princeton

  • Worked on magnetic mines and torpedoes at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory during World War II

    Worked on magnetic mines and torpedoes at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory during World War II

  • Began work at Bell Labs with William Shockley and Stanley Morgan

    Began work at Bell Labs with William Shockley and Stanley Morgan

  • Created a successful transitor with Walter Brattain

    Created a successful transitor with Walter Brattain

  • Left Bell Labs to work at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign as a professor of electrical engineering and physics

    Left Bell Labs to work at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign as a professor of electrical engineering and physics

  • Earned the Nobel Prize in physics for his work on semiconductors and the transistor

    Earned the Nobel Prize in physics for his work on semiconductors and the transistor

  • Collaborated with Leon Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer to develop the standard theory of superconductivity (BCS theory)

    Collaborated with Leon Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer to develop the standard theory of superconductivity (BCS theory)

  • Earned the Nobel Prize in physics for developing BSC theory

    Earned the Nobel Prize in physics for developing BSC theory

  • Died

    Died