Walter Brattain
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 38 years ago |
| Date of birth | February 10,1902 |
| Zodiac sign | Aquarius |
| Born | China-Amoy |
| Date of died | October 13,1987 |
| Died | Seattle |
| Washington | |
| 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.
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