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- Feb. 11, 1991: Died:John Bardeen
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Feb. 11, 1991 Saddam's Weird War
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 74
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- <p> DIED. John Bardeen, 82, physicist and electrical engineer,
- a co-inventor of the transistor and two-time Nobel prizewinner;
- in Boston. Bardeen shared his first Nobel in 1956 with William
- Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the
- transistor, a tiny device that replaced the ungainly vacuum
- tube and heralded the revolution in modern, miniaturized
- electronics. Sixteen years later, Bardeen and two others won the
- Nobel for their theory of low-temperature superconductivity,
- in which electricity travels through matter with little or no
- resistance.
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