The Almanac

May 23

One thing science and human progress accomplished on this date.

  1. 1908

    John Bardeen is born

    John Bardeen was born in 1908. He is the only person ever to win the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: once for helping invent the transistor, the tiny switch inside every computer, and again for explaining how superconductors carry electricity with no loss at all. Two pillars of modern electronics, from one modest engineer.

    Source: Wikipedia

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