Editing John Bardeen (section)

===Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956===
In 1956, John Bardeen shared the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] with [[William Shockley]] of Semiconductor Laboratory of Beckman Instruments and [[Walter Brattain]] of Bell Telephone Laboratories "''for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect''".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1956/index.html |title=The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 |access-date=November 6, 2007 |publisher=The Nobel Foundation }}</ref>

At the Nobel Prize ceremony in [[Stockholm]], Brattain and Shockley received their awards that night from [[Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden|King Gustaf VI Adolf]]. Bardeen brought only one of his three children to the Nobel Prize ceremony. King Gustav chided Bardeen because of this, and Bardeen assured the King that the next time he would bring all his children to the ceremony. He kept his promise.<ref name="John Bardeen 3">{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/transistor/album1/bardeen/bardeen3.html |title=Biography of John Bardeen 3 |access-date=December 24, 2007 |publisher=PBS}}</ref>