Physicist Awarded Prestigious John Bardeen Prize

Physics Today ◽  
2012 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
John Bardeen

The ECD Community: A Social Invention (1965–2007)

2018 ◽  
pp. 147-170
Author(s):  
Lillian Hoddeson ◽  
Peter Garrett
Keyword(s):  
Continuing Education ◽  
Corporate Culture ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Concurrent Programs ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Supportive Culture ◽  
John Bardeen ◽  
Distinguished Group

This chapter portrays the ways Stan and Iris Ovshinsky made ECD an expression of their progressive social values as well as an advanced R&D organization. A social democratic enclave sustained by capitalism, ECD tried to maintain an egalitarian, supportive culture even as it grew to over a thousand employees. ECD enabled staff members to develop unsuspected talents, with support for continuing education and the appointment of women and minorities to important positions. Its democratic corporate culture also enabled it to develop a flexible research community, where scientists moved among concurrent programs to contribute wherever they were needed. Its research staff was joined by a distinguished group of consultants, which included Nobel laureates like I. I. Rabi, Sir Nevill Mott, and John Bardeen, as well as several talented younger scientists. ECD also reached out into the larger community with its Institute for Amorphous Studies, which sponsored public talks on many subjects.

A Solid Beginning

2021 ◽  
pp. 60-77
Author(s):  
Andrew Zangwill
Keyword(s):  
State Physics ◽  
Solid State ◽  
Ferroelectric Materials ◽  
Short Description ◽  
Solid State Physics ◽  
State College ◽  
Washington State College ◽  
History Of ◽  
John Bardeen ◽  
Van Vleck

Anderson chooses a job at Washington State College over a boring-sounding job at Westinghouse. Van Vleck intervenes to arrange an interview with William Shockley at Bell Telephone Laboratories. Anderson declines Washington and accepts a job offer from Shockley in 1949. A short history of Bell Labs follows, including the creation of a Solid-State Physics group after the war to, among other things, seek a replacement for vacuum tubes. A short description of solid-state physics follows. The team of Shockley, John Bardeen, and William Brattain invent the transistor and Shockley alienates everyone. Shockley tells Anderson to work on ferroelectric materials. Anderson dislikes the work but is personally impressed by Shockley as a physicist.

scholarly journals In memoriam John Bardeen

1991 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
pp. 399-400
Author(s):  
R. Kümmel ◽  
G. Landwehr
Keyword(s):  
John Bardeen ◽  
In Memoriam

Special Issue: John Bardeen

Physics Today ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 23-25
Author(s):  
Gloria B. Lubkin
Keyword(s):  
Special Issue ◽  
John Bardeen

John Bardeen, 1908–1991

1991 ◽  
Vol 185-189 ◽  
pp. xi-xiii
Author(s):  
J.R. Schrieffer
Keyword(s):  
John Bardeen

The Silicon Tide: Relations between Things Epistemic and Things of Function in the Semiconductor World

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry Shinn
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Fundamental Physics ◽  
John Bardeen

This article explores the changing interactions between fundamental physics and the learning and skills situated near engineering and enterprise as related to microelectronics and in particular to semiconductors that occurred over the span of the twentieth century. The discussion draws on selected episodes in the silicon tide with reference to an understanding of semiconducting to the invention of transistors and their development. The focus is on theories, experiments, models, invention, materials, products, manufacturing markets, and management from Guglielmo Marconi’s introduction of Hertzian communication to the 1947 invention of the transistor by John Bardeen, William Shockley, and Walter Brattain, the development of the microprocessor in 1970, and the launch in 2011 of the nanoscale Finfet transistor family by the Intel company.

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