"John Bardeen was an avid golfer and a good one. Whenever possible, he sought out golf courses during research or consulting trips. According to the stories, he was as proud of hitting a "hole in one" as he was to win a second Nobel Prize."
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Lillian Hoddeson in No boundaries: University of Illinois vignettes, University of Illinois Press 2004 (quote page 257)
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John Bardeen
John Bardeen (May 23, 1908 – January 30, 1991) 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 , and in 1972 for a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity together with and , now called BCS theory.
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