Physics Colloquium
Friday, April 22nd, 2005, 4:00 P.M.
N300 Math/Science Center; Refreshments 3:30 P.M. Room E200 Math/Science Center
Lillian Hoddeson
Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Problem-solving Secrets of a Double Nobel Laureate: The Scientific Creativity of John Bardeen
Unlike some other truly great physicists, such as Albert Einstein and Richard Feynman, John Bardeen, the only person ever to win two Nobel Prizes in physics, does not match the conventional image of a scientific genius. Bardeen had a more mundane profile, one that fits a type well examined by psychologists. This historical account of Bardeen's role in the invention of the transistor and the discovery of the BCS theory of superconducitivity reflects on the most important features of his scientific style and problem-solving methodology.
http://www.history.uiuc.edu/fac_dir/hod_dir/hoddeson.htm
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