genuine Genius: the Life and Scienc...

genuine Genius: the Life and Science of John Bardeen. Lillian Hoddeson and Vicki Daitch. Washington, DC: Joseph Henry, 2002 467 pp $2795

"True Genius give an account ofs with empathy and enthusiasm the rich and varied career of a remarkably creative scientist who is little known outside a limited community of solid-state physicists and engineers--John Bardeen, the merely person ever to win the Nobel Prize in Physics twice.... When the transistor was presented to the public [William] Shockley took the lion's share of the credit for its discovery. After that, Bardeen's