John Bardeen
Born: 1908Birthplace: Madison, Wisconsin
Transistor—Bardeen, Shockley and Brattain shared the 1956 Nobel Prize for Physics for the invention of the transistor. The transistor replaced the vacuum tube and paved the way for the integrated circuit. (1974)
Died: 1991| Frederick Banting | The National Inventors Hall of Fame | C. Donald Bateman |
