Distinguished Service Medallion 1978
JOHN BARDEEN
Two-time Nobel Prize winner, physicist, electrical engineer, faculty
member at the University from 1951 until retirement in 1975, Dr. Bardeen
was awarded his Medallion at the Urbana-Champaign commencement.
Board of Trustees Minutes
February 15, 1978
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR AWARD OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDALLION
In 1973 the Trustees Distinguished Service Medallion was created to
recognize those individuals whose contributions to the growth and
development of the University of Illinois, through extraordinary service
or significant benefaction, have been of unusual significance.
The Distinguished Service Medallion Committee, consisting of five
trustees, including the president of the board, ex officio, now
recommends as recipient of the Trustees Distinguished Service Medallion
for 1978 the following individual:
JOHN BARDEEN -- physicist, electrical engineer, faculty member at the
University from 1951 until his retirement in 1975, he has earned
international distinction for his contributions to basic research in
electronics and in the theory of superconductivity. Twice a winner of
the Nobel Prize for Physics and the recipient of numerous other honors,
he has brought great honor to the University.
The award would be conferred at the Commencement Exercises at Urbana on May 21, 1978.
Presented by the Committee for the Trustees Distinguished Service Medallion Award:
JANE HAYES RADER, Chairman
RALPH C. HAHN
GEORGE W. HOWARD III, ex officio
EARL L. NEAL
NINA T. SHEPHERD
On motion of Mrs. Rader, this recommendation was approved.