Walter Houser Brattain
Physicist, Academic
1902 – 1987
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Who was Walter Houser Brattain?
Walter Houser Brattain was an American physicist at Bell Labs who, along with John Bardeen and William Shockley, invented the transistor. They shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their invention. He devoted much of his life to research on surface states.
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- Born
- Feb 10, 1902
China-Amoy - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Minnesota
- University of Oregon
- Whitman College
- Princeton University
- Employment
- Bell Labs
- Lived in
- United States of America
- Died
- Oct 13, 1987
Seattle
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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