John Bardeen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bardeen

He is the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon N Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity known as the BCS theory

What made Bardeen great, as indeed he was, was his stubbornness and experimental taste, and Laughlin dismisses these values.

Bardeen was human, and was wrong as often as he was right. It would have been instructive to point out that he published two mistaken theories of superconductivity 15 and 7 years before he got the right one. Laughlin's history and emphases are too much those of his generation.