My name is John Bardeen, an American physicist and Nobel laureate, my first Nobel prize in 1956 was for the transistor which was a team effort with William Shockley and Walter H. Brattain
In 1972 I shared the Nobel Prize in physics with the American physicists Leon  Cooper and John  Schrieffer for the development of a theory to explain superconductivity, the disappearance of electrical resistance in certain metals and alloys at temperatures near absolute zero.

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