Editing John Bardeen (section)

===Legacy===
{{quote box|align=right|width=33%|quote = Near the end of this decade, when they begin enumerating the names of the people who had the greatest impact on the 20th century, the name of John Bardeen, who died last week, has to be near, or perhaps even arguably at, the top of the list ... Mr. Bardeen shared two Nobel Prizes and has been awarded numerous other honors.  But what greater honor can there be when each of us can look all around us and everywhere see the reminders of a man whose genius has made our lives longer, healthier and better.|source= —''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' editorial, February 3, 1991}}

In honor of Bardeen, the engineering [[Quadrangle (architecture)|quadrangle]] at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is named the [[Engineering Campus (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)|Bardeen Quad]].

Also in honor of Bardeen, [[Sony]] Corporation endowed a $3&nbsp;million John Bardeen professorial chair at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, beginning in 1990.<ref name=obit>{{cite news|author=John Noble Wilford |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/31/obituaries/dr-john-bardeen-82-winner-of-nobel-prize-for-transistor-dies.html |quote=John Bardeen, a co-inventor of the transistor that led to modern electronics and twice a winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, died yesterday at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He was 82 years old. ...|title=Dr. John Bardeen, 82, Winner Of Nobel Prize for Transistor, Dies |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=January 31, 1991 |access-date=February 25, 2014|author-link=John Noble Wilford }}</ref> Sony Corporation owed much of its success to commercializing Bardeen's transistors in portable TVs and radios, and had worked with Illinois researchers. {{As of|2022}}, the John Bardeen Professor is [[Yurii Vlasov]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Communications |first=Grainger Engineering Office of Marketing and |title=John Bardeen Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics, sponsored by the Sony Corporation |url=https://ece.illinois.edu/about/directory/chairs/bardeen-chair |access-date=2022-09-09 |website=ece.illinois.edu |language=en}}</ref>

At the time of Bardeen's death, then-University of Illinois chancellor Morton Weir said, "It is a rare person whose work changes the life of every American; John's did."<ref name="chisuntimes2"/>

Bardeen was honored on a March 6, 2008, United States [[postage stamp]] as part of the "American Scientists" series designed by artist [[Victor Stabin]]. The $0.41 stamp was unveiled in a ceremony at the University of Illinois.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/?xId=072808960714 |title=Bardeen Stamp Celebrated at Campus Ceremony |access-date=March 4, 2008 |publisher=University of Illinois }}</ref>  His citation reads: "Theoretical physicist John Bardeen (1908–1991) shared the Nobel Prize in Physics twice—in 1956, as co-inventor of the transistor and in 1972, for the explanation of superconductivity.  The transistor paved the way for all modern electronics, from computers to microchips.  Diverse applications of superconductivity include infrared sensors and medical imaging systems."  The other scientists on the "American Scientists" sheet include biochemist [[Gerty Cori]], chemist [[Linus Pauling]] and astronomer [[Edwin Hubble]].