約翰·巴丁 (John Bardeen)，晶體管的共同發明者，導致了現代電子學的發展，兩次獲得諾貝爾物理學獎
第一個在同一領域兩次獲得諾貝爾獎的人。
巴丁博士注意到超導理論的發展花了近二十年的時間，他告訴朋友們，“我想說你必須相信堅持——有時會有回報。”
“對整個20世紀產生如此大影響的人很少。”John Bardeen, a co-inventor of the transistor that led to modern electronics and twice a winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
the first person to receive two Nobel Prizes in the same field.
Noting that it had taken nearly two decades to develop the superconductivity theory, Dr. Bardeen told friends, "I'd say you've got to believe in persistence -- it sometimes pays off."
"There are very few people who had a greater impact on the whole of the 20th century."
Dr. Bardeen once remarked, "I knew the transistor was important, but I never foresaw the revolution in electronics it would bring."
索尼公司向伊利諾大學捐贈了 300 萬美元的教職來紀念巴丁博士。美國索尼公司副董事長 Michael P. Schulhof 表示：「從日本第一台晶體管收音機到最新的數位處理器，索尼的成就很大程度上歸功於巴丁教授的科學貢獻。In 1956, while preparing breakfast, American physicist and electrical engineer John Bardeen heard the news on the radio that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, together with Walter Brattain and William Shockley, "for their research on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect".
In surprise, he dropped the eggs he was cooking for his family on the floor!
The ceremony in Stockholm was a disaster: Bardeen showed up with an embarrassing green-stained shirt and vest due to a mistake in washing his clothes, and the King of Sweden, Gustav VI, did not appreciate the fact that the physicist had left his family behind on such an important occasion, gently scolding him for not having brought all three of his children with him (Bardeen did not want to disturb the studies of his two sons, who were busy with university exams at Harvard, and so he took only his third and youngest son with him to Stockholm).
“I’ll bring them when I win the next Nobel,” Bardeen replied, reassuring the king.
And it wasn’t a joke.
He kept his promise, winning again in 1972, this time with John Schrieffer and Leon Cooper, “for their theory of superconductivity.”
On this occasion, as he had promised, he brought all three of his children to the gala ceremony!
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