John Bardeen Quadrangle and Memorial Garden

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Dedicated in October 2004, the John Bardeen Quadrangle and Memorial Garden honors theoretical physicist John Bardeen (1908-1991), a former professor of physics and electrical engineering at Illinois, and the first person to win two Nobel Prizes in the same field--for the invention of the transistor (1956) and the explanation of superconductivity (1972).
Located in the heart of the Engineering campus, the Bardeen Quadrangle is bounded by the Grainger Engineering Library on the north, the Mechanical Engineering Laboratory on the east, Engineering Hall on the south, and Talbot Laboratory on the west. Site improvements include new concrete walks, decorative plaza pavements, bicycle parking, service courtyards, dry-laid stone retaining walls along the Boneyard Creek, a fountain, and a newly landscaped garden outside the north entrance to Engineering Hall.
The project was made possible by The Grainger Foundation, a private foundation established by electrical engineering alumnus William Wallace Grainger (B.S. 1919) and headed by his son, David, made the gift to create the engineering quad and garden.

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