John Bardeen

John Bardeen was an American physicist and electrical engineer. He is the only person to be awarded 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.

23 May 1908

Born on the same birth date (23 May 1908): Annemarie Schwarzenbach • Hélène Boucher

Born on the same birth day (23 May): Daniele Massaro • Denis Compton • Gongmin of Goryeo • Guinevere Turner • Josef Terboven • Józef Wieniawski • K. Raghavendra Rao • Margaret Wise Brown • Morgan Pressel • Ove Fundin • Paul Sironen • S. Donald Stookey • Sam Timmins • Theofanis Gekas • Zack Wheat

Born in the same month (May 1908): Annemarie Schwarzenbach • Billy Jurges • Don Ameche • Giovannino Guareschi • Hannes Alfvén • Henry Bolte • Hélène Boucher • Ian Fleming • James Stewart • Louis Daquin • Manik Bandopadhyay • Mel Blanc • Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ • Nicholas Kaldor • Percy Williams (sprinter) • Robert Morley • Theodore Roethke