Stockholm. John Bardeen, after dropping scrambled eggs on the floor when he received the Nobel Prize news, commits further gaffes: he washes his colored clothes, his vest, and his tailcoat from the ceremony together, staining everything green. On the day of the ceremony, he also takes quinine to calm his stomach, to no avail. During the ceremony, the Swedish king scolds Bardeen for leaving his children at home (he didn’t want them to miss an important exam at Harvard). To Bardeen’s final criticism, he replies that he will bring them to the next Nobel Prize. This will duly happen in 1972, when Bardeen receives the Nobel Prize in Physics for his theory of superconductivity (BCS Theory: Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer).
