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...addition to Ball, the other men who received degrees were: George F. Bennett '33, the retiring treasurer of Harvard College; Robert Penn Warren, the novelist and critic; Theodore M. Hesburgh, the president of Notre Dame University; and John Bardeen, who has won two Nobel Prizes in Physics...
...American scientists last week made a clean sweep of the 1972 Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry. One of them, Physicist John Bardeen, 64, who shared the physics award, became the first person ever to win two Nobel Prizes in the same field; in 1956 he was awarded his first Nobel Prize as co-inventor of the transistor...
...Bardeen shared this year's physics prize (worth $98,100) with his former University of Illinois colleagues, Leon N. Cooper, 42, now of Brown University, and John R. Schrieffer, 41, of the University of Pennsylvania. They were honored for their fundamental work on superconductivity, a phenomenon that occurs in certain metals when they are chilled close to absolute zero (minus 459.7° F.). In that state, they lose all resistance to the flow of electric current...
Although superconductivity was discovered in 1911, it was not really explained until Bardeen, Cooper and Schrieffer offered their now-famous "BCS theory" (from their initials) in 1957. At extremely low temperatures, they said, electrons are coupled with one another (in so-called Cooper pairs), cease their random collisions and flow unhindered. Superconductivity may lead to more efficient transmission of electrical power, better transportation systems, and even harnessing the energy of thermonuclear fusion...
...pharmacology student at Ohio State can use the bionucleonic lab at Purdue. Physics students will gain access to the biotron at Wisconsin. Besides specialized schools and equipment, students will be able to seek out star scholars-Iowa's Space Scientist James Van Allen, Illinois' Nobel Physicist John Bardeen, Indiana's Geneticist Hermann Muller...