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John Bardeen Born: 1908
Birthplace: 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
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