New stamp honors UI professor, inventor Bardeen
By Greg Kline
Monday March 3, 2008
The News-Gazette
A U.S. Postal Service stamp commemorating the late UI physics Prof. John Bardeen, inventor of the transistor and a two-time Nobel Prize winner.
John Bardeen never ran for six touchdowns against Michigan.
Then again, Red Grange never won two Nobel Prizes nor invented anything like the transistor, the linchpin of the modern electronic age.
Which is why the late UI physics professor will join the Illini football legend Thursday as the latest person with local connections to end up on a commemorative stamp from the U.S. Postal Service. Grange was honored in 2003.
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