After postdoctoral positions at the California Institute of Technology and the University of California, Berkeley, he joined the Department of Astronomy at the University of Washington in 1967.
Until then, what a Nobel laureate Kap Thorne, a professor at the California Institute of Technology, points out that the golden age of black hole research was in full swing and Dr. Bardeen was carried away by international meetings. In one, in Paris in 1967, he met Nancy Thomas, a Connecticut high school teacher who was trying to improve her French. They married in 1968.
Next to his son Wilhelm, Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer of The New York Times Company, and his brother William, Dr. Bardeen’s wife survives him, along with another son, David, and two grandchildren. Sister Elizabeth Gretke died in 2000.
dr Like his brother and father, Bardeen was a member of the National Academy of Sciences.