If you’re on this website you may be interested to learn that Bardeen won for inventing the transistor. (His other prize was for explaining super conductivity;

If you’re on this website you may be interested to learn that Bardeen won for inventing the transistor. (His other prize was for explaining super conductivity; he won for experimental work and separately for theoretical work!) Bardeen didn’t bring his young children to the Nobel award ceremony the first time. The King asked him where they were and jokingly said Bardeen had ought to bring them next time. And so he did!