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John, 1908–91, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1956, 1972.
Historical Examples

Mr. Bardeen lost little time in jumping from the automobile.
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“I hope they’ll be playmates for you,” answered Mr. Bardeen.
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“Yes, my monkey Jack is up there near the chimney,” said Mr. Bardeen.
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But as Mr. Bardeen was getting out Ted uttered a cry of alarm.
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Mr. Bardeen pointed to little William, who was sobbing in Janet’s arms.
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The chaplain knew Bardeen well, and also knew just how true the yarn was not.
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“All right, I guess you can watch the machine,” said Mr. Bardeen.
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“It is very good of you, Mr. Bardeen, to ask me out here,” said Mrs. Benton.
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Aunt Sallie was almost ready to doze off in a little sleep when Mr. Bardeen was seen coming around the corner of the cabin.
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“You stay in the car a moment, children,” said Mr. Bardeen, as he got out on the side of the steering wheel.
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noun
John. 1908–91, US physicist and electrical engineer, noted for his research on electrical conduction in solids; shared Nobel prize for physics 1956 for research on semiconductors leading to the invention of the transistor; shared Nobel prize for physics 1972 for contributions to the theory of superconductivity
Bardeen
(bär-dēn’)
American physicist who, with William Brattain and William Shockley, invented the transistor in 1947. For this work all three shared a 1956 Nobel Prize for physics. In 1972 Bardeen shared another Nobel Prize for physics with American physicists Leon Neil Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for their development of the theory of superconductivity.