Reminiscences of early days in solid state physics

Bardeen, John. Born Wisconsin 1908. Educated Universities of Wisconsin and Princeton. Research in many aspects of solid state science. Nobel Prize for physics (shared) 1956 for research leading to the invention of the ; Nobel Prize for physics ( shared) 1972 for the ‘ BCS ’ theory of superconductivity associated with his name. Professor, University of Illinois, since 1951.