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Professor Lillian Hoddeson - General Colloquium
February 5, 2004
Professor Lillian Hoddeson
Professor of History
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
[Author of True Genius: the Life and Science of John Bardeen (with Vicki Daitch) and Crystal Fire: the Birth of the Information Age (with Michael Riordan)]
Title: John Bardeen, the Transistor, and Superconductivity: How to Win Two Nobels and Make a Hole in One
An historical account of Bardeen's role in the invention of the transistor and the discovery of the BCS theory of superconducitivity, with reflections on his scientific style and methodology.