Walter Houser Brattain
1902-1987
American physicist who was awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize for Physics, with John Bardeen and William Shockley, for research on semiconductors and creating the transistor...
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The American physicist Walter H. Brattain (1902-1987), a co-inventor of the transistor, devoted much of his life to research on surface states.Although he was born in Amoy, China (February 10, 1902), ...
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A small semiconducting device capable of great amplification, the transistor, invented by Walter Houser Brattain and colleagues John Bardeen and William Shockley, revolutionized many aspects of modern...
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Brattain was born in China, and he grew up on his parents' cattle ranch in Washington state. In 1924 he graduated from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, with a degree in physics and mathemat...
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Walter Houser Brattain
Walter H. Brattain
Walter Houser Brattain
Walter Houser Brattain