All of John Bardeen’s Nobel Prizes, Ranked
The highest honor that a scientist can get is the Nobel Prize. Getting the gold not only wins you universal recognition, but also a cash prize of over one million dollars.
John Bardeen, a former faculty member at UIUC, was a serial Nobel Prize winner. Some even go so far as to call him the Nobel GOAT. Here we will painstakingly enumerate all of Bardeen’s wins and rank them by impressiveness.
1. Nobel Prize for Physics (1956)
Winning this prize was pretty impressive. 10/10
2. Nobel Prize for Physics (1972)
Winning this prize was great, but not wholly unexpected, given Bardeen’s past record. 9/10