Rate My Professor John Bardeen

John Bardeen earned a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin. He received his Ph.D. in mathematical physics from Princeton University in 1936. Following his doctorate, Bardeen held positions as a Junior Fellow at Harvard University and as an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota from 1938 to 1941. During World War II, he served as a physicist at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory. In 1945, he joined Bell Telephone Laboratories, where he contributed to the invention of the transistor in 1947.