Portraits of influence
#5: John Bardeen *36

The only person ever to have won two Nobel Prizes in physics, he co-invented the transistor, which transformed the electronics industry, and developed, with two colleagues, the first successful explanation of superconductivity, which has helped make possible MRIs, CAT scans, and mobile phones, among many other things. end of article


Read about others on the list. Click on the illustration below to read about each person. You can also select individuals by name in the index below.

Portraits of influence

By Michael Witte ’66


Who’s who in the illustration: Numbers in parentheses represent the rankings on the PAW panel’s list.

Portraits of influence key
1 Benjamin Rush 1760 (No. 7)
2 Charles Scribner 1840 (No. 17)
3 John Foster Dulles 1908 (No. 10)
4 Ralph Nader ’55 (No. 25/Tied)
5 Donald Rumsfeld ’54 (No. 25/Tied)
6 John Rawls ’43 *50 (No. 4)
7 Alan Turing *38 (No. 2)
8 Alfred Barr ’22 *23 (No. 21)
9 Jeffrey Moss ’63 (No. 12)
10 Jeff Bezos ’86 (No. 20)
11 Robert Venturi ’47 *50 (No. 19)
12 George Kennan ’25 (No. 6)
13 John Bogle ’51 (No. 23)
14 Paul Volcker ’49 (No. 15)
15 Nicholas Katzenbach ’43 (No. 16)
16 Richard Feynman *42 (No. 14)
17 John Bardeen *36 (No. 5)
18 Wendy Kopp ’89 (No. 13)
19 Laurance Rockefeller ’32 (No. 18)
20 Gary Becker ’51 (No. 11)
21 George Shultz ’42 (No. 9)
22 F. Scott Fitzgerald ’17 (No. 8)
23 Norman Thomas 1905 (No. 24)
24 James Madison 1771 (No. 1)
25 Woodrow Wilson 1879 (No. 3)
26 Philip Freneau 1771 (No. 22)

 

 

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