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Walter Brattain

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Gender Male
Death37 years ago
Date of birth February 10,1902
Zodiac sign Aquarius
Born China-Amoy
Date of died October 13,1987
DiedSeattle
Washington
United States
NationalityAmerican
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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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.

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