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Author Hoddeson, Lillian.

Title True genius : the life and science of John Bardeen : the only winner of two Nobel Prizes in physics / Lillian Hoddeson, Vicki Daitch.

Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : Joseph Henry Press, [2002]
©2002

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 Moore Stacks  QC16.B27 H63 2002    Available  ---
Description xi, 467 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-358) and index.
Contents The question of genius -- Roots -- To be an engineer -- A graduate student's paradise -- Many-body beginnings -- Academic life -- Engineering for national defense -- The transistor -- The break from Bell -- Homecoming -- Cracking the riddle of superconductivity -- Two Nobels are better than one hole in one -- A hand in industry -- Citizen of science -- Pins and needles and waves -- Last journey -- True genius and how to cultivate it.
Subject Bardeen, John.
Bardeen, John.
Physicists -- United States -- Biography.
Physicists.
United States.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Superconductivity.
Superconductivity.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Added Author Daitch, Vicki.
ISBN 0309084083