Legacy
Legacy
The Information Age“We are no longer in the dispensation of age and experience. We are in the era of knowledge and information. Information leads a true leader and a true leader leads others.” John Bardeen's first legacy lies right around us, all around in this time known as the Information Age.
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What is the Information Age"The Information Age, also commonly known as the Computer Age or Information Era, is an idea that the current age will be characterized by the ability of individuals to transfer information freely, and to have instant access to knowledge that would have been difficult or impossible to find previously. The idea is linked to the concept of a Digital Age or Digital Revolution, and carries the ramifications of a shift from traditional industry that the Industrial Revolution brought through industrialization, to an economy based on the manipulation of information." |
John Bardeen's legacy is shown in the computers, phones, and even some cars. Technology would have been huge and most probably not commercialized before the invention of the transistor. Many of today's mundane occurrences and even problems would not have existed without the transistor such as the issue of identity theft. Technology would have been much larger and more expensive to be in any house. Innovations such as the iPhone wouldn't exist anymore.
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John Bardeen's legacy goes even beyond that in which he is now know as the only man to win the Nobel Prize for physics twice.
John Bardeen's theory of superconductivity has also led to future inventions such as in health and magnetism.
John Bardeen's theory of superconductivity has also led to future inventions such as in health and magnetism.
“At Illinois, Bardeen established two major research programs, one in the Electrical Engineering Department dealing with both experimental and theoretical aspects of semiconductors, and one in the Physics Department which dealt with theoretical aspects of macroscopic quantum systems, particularly superconductivity and quantum liquids.” (44).
Overall John Bardeen has an everlasting and strong legacy that effects even the oblivious in this technologically advance world we live in today.
Overall John Bardeen has an everlasting and strong legacy that effects even the oblivious in this technologically advance world we live in today.
42 - Burris, Eddie. "Computer Concepts."
University of Missouri-Kansas City. Accessed November 28, 2014.
43 - Brinkman, William F., Douglas E. Haggan, and William W. Troutman. A History of the Invention of the Transistor and Where It Will Lead Us. Research report no. 12. IEEE JOURNAL OF SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS 32. December 1997.
44 - "Spark of Genius: The Story of John Bardeen at the University of Illinois." Video file, 23:12. Posted by University of Illinois, August 26, 2010.
43 - Brinkman, William F., Douglas E. Haggan, and William W. Troutman. A History of the Invention of the Transistor and Where It Will Lead Us. Research report no. 12. IEEE JOURNAL OF SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS 32. December 1997.
44 - "Spark of Genius: The Story of John Bardeen at the University of Illinois." Video file, 23:12. Posted by University of Illinois, August 26, 2010.
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John Bardeen: Physics Mastermind and Father of the Age of Information
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John Bardeen: Physics Mastermind and Father of the Age of Information
Prasnav Naik - Senior Division