FiveThirtyEight (New York, Oct. 3) – Who is the typical winner of a Nobel Prize in physics? He’s a white guy who wears glasses. He’s balding. He graduated high school at age 15, and his favorite sport is golf. He is, in fact, John Bardeen. When he won his awards, Bardeen was working at Illinois as a professor of electrical engineering and physics. The Nobel Prize for physics is announced today.