The JOHN BARDEEN PRIZE was established in 1991 by the organizers of the International Conference on the Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity (M2S) in honor of Dr. John Bardeen for “theoretical work that has provided significant insights on the nature of superconductivity and has led to verifiable predictions”. This prize is funded by the Physics Department at the University of Illinois, with an award of $6,000. USD to the recipient and a certificate.
The Nominations for 2018 John Bardeen Prize is closed on Tuesday May 22, 2018 (US central time).
For nominations, please go to the website:
https://my.physics.illinois.edu/submit/go.asp?id=1188
Prize chair:
Prof. Eduardo Fradkin (University of Illinois)
Committee members:
Prof. Eduardo Fradkin (University of Illinois)
Prof. Sue Coppersmith (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Prof. Aharon Kapitulnik (Stanford University)
Prof. Subir Sachdev (Harvard University)
Prof. Joerg Schmalian (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Dr. John Tranquada (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Prof. Hai-Hu Wen (Nanjing University)
2015: Geneva(Switzerland)
Vinay Ambegaokar2012 : Washington DC (USA)
Steven A. Kivelson, James A. Sauls and Chandra M. Varma2009 : Tokyo (Japan)
David Pines2006 : Dresden (Germany)
Alexander Andreev, Kazumi Maki, Doug Scalapino2003 : Rio (Brazil)
Anatoly Larkin, David Nelson, Valerii Vinokur2000 : Houston (USA)
T. Maurice Rice1997 : Beijing (China)
Philip Anderson1994 : Grenoble (France)
Anthony J. Leggett, G. M. Eliashberg1991 : Kanazawa (Japan)
Vitaly L. Ginzburg, Alexei A. Abrikosov, Lev P. Gor’kov
John Bardeen
John Bardeen (1908-1991) was an American physicist and electrical engineer, the only person to have won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon N Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity known as the BCS theory.
The transistor revolutionized the electronics industry, allowing the Information Age to occur, and made possible the development of almost every modern electronic device, from telephones to computers to missiles. Bardeen’s developments in superconductivity, which won him his second Nobel, are used in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (NMR) or its medical sub-tool magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
In 1990, John Bardeen appeared on LIFE Magazine’s list of “100 Most Influential Americans of the Century.”