## https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bardeen

> 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

## [What made Bardeen great, as indeed he was, was his stubbornness and experimental taste, and Laughlin dismisses these values.](https://www.nature.com/articles/434701a)

> Bardeen was human, and was wrong as often as he was right. It would have been instructive to point out that he published two mistaken theories of superconductivity 15 and 7 years before he got the right one. Laughlin's history and emphases are too much those of his generation.