Walter Brattain
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 37 years ago |
Date of birth | February 10,1902 |
Zodiac sign | Aquarius |
Born | China-Amoy |
Date of died | October 13,1987 |
Died | Seattle |
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United States | |
Nationality | American |
Known for | Transistors |
Transistor | |
Job | Inventor |
Physicist | |
Awards | Nobel Prize in Physics |
Current partner | Keren Gilmore Brattain |
Education | Princeton University |
University of Minnesota | |
University of Oregon | |
Whitman College | |
Tonasket High School | |
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ID | 497646 |
Walter Brattain Life story
Walter Houser Brattain was an American physicist at Bell Labs who, along with fellow scientists John Bardeen and William Shockley, invented the point-contact transistor in December 1947. They shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their invention. Brattain devoted much of his life to research on surface states.