Re: [Leica] John Bardeen, was Re: OT Richard Feynman

[Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com>]

Marvin Levi wrote:
> 
> Feynman was a scientist who happened to also know to
> show off and act with a certain flair, and as a
> result, came off as smarter than anybody else.
> 
> In terms of its impact on our everyday life, the
> greatest physicist this century is none other than Dr.
> John Bardeen. He won Nobel price TWICE, the first time
> for the invention of the transistor, the second time
> for the discovery, with two other fellow Univ. of
> Illinois researchers, the BCS theory for
> superconductivity. He was a very quiet and humble man.
> 

But he didn't invent a whole new field of physics like Feynman did!
	From what i know about it.


Mark Rabiner

Portland, Oregon
USA

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