Timeline Assignment - John Bardeen By cg77 May 23, 1908 Born in Wisconsin 1923 Graduated high school at age 15 1928 Recieved a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin 1929 Received a master of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin 1930 Worked for Gulf Research Labratories as a geophysicist 1934 Accepted to the mathematics graduate program at Princeton University 1936 Received a Ph.D. in mathematical physics from Princeton 1941 Worked on magnetic mines and torpedoes at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory during World War II 1945 Began work at Bell Labs with William Shockley and Stanley Morgan Dec 23, 1947 Created a successful transitor with Walter Brattain 1951 Left Bell Labs to work at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign as a professor of electrical engineering and physics 1956 Earned the Nobel Prize in physics for his work on semiconductors and the transistor 1957 Collaborated with Leon Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer to develop the standard theory of superconductivity (BCS theory) 1972 Earned the Nobel Prize in physics for developing BSC theory Jan 30, 1991 Died
