Re: Re[2]: Scientist of the Millennium?

[Leigh Palmer <palmer@sfu.ca>]

> Then also, Faraday (wasn't he the first who thought on an
> interaction mediated via a field?), Maxwell (So that we have
> the other 'pair' in the history of physics), and also
> obviusly then the inventor of the transistor: Baarden, Cooper and...
> (I always forget it) Shefield?

The transistor was invented by Brattain, Shockley and Bardeen. John
Bardeen was then at Bell labs. He later won a second Nobel Prize in
physics for the theory of superconductivity together with Cooper and
Schrieffer.

Leigh