Quote of the day
Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
John Bardeen
Born: May 23, 1908
Died: January 30, 1991 (aged 82)
Bio: John Bardeen was an American physicist. He is the only person to have won two Nobel prizes in Physics, in 1956 for the transistor, along with William Shockley and Walter Brattain, and in 1972 for a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity together with Leon Neil Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer, now called BCS theory.