Walter Brattain
February 10, 1902 –October 13, 1987
Physicist, Inventor
Lived 85 years
- Born in
- Xiamen
- Passed away in
- Seattle
Walter Houser Brattain ( BRAT-n; February 10, 1902 – October 13, 1987) was an American physicist who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Bardeen and William Shockley for their invention of the point-contact transistor. Brattain devoted much of his life to research on surface states.
Awards: Nobel Prize in Physics, Stuart Ballantine Medal, John Scott Award, National Inventors Hall of Fame, Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award Education: Whitman College, University of Oregon, University of Minnesota, Queen Anne High School
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