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Walter H. Brattain, in full Walter Houser Brattain, (born Feb. 10, 1902, Amoy, China—died Oct. 13, 1987, Seattle, Wash., U.S.), American scientist who, along with John Bardeen and William B. Shockley, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1956 for his investigation of the properties of semiconductors—materials of which transistors are made ...

Walter Houser Brattain The Nobel Prize in Physics 1956 . Born: 10 February 1902, Amoy, China Died: 13 October 1987, Seattle, WA, USA Affiliation at the time of the award: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA . Prize motivation: “for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect” Prize share: 1/3

Portrait of Walter Houser Brattain. American physicist and Nobel prizewinner Brattain was born in 1902 in Amoy (China), where his father was a professor of science, although shortly after in 1903 the family returned to the United States. In 1920 he began his university studies in physics at Whitman College in Walla Walla (Washington State, USA).

Dr. Brattain received the honorary Doctor of Science degree from Portland University in 1952, from Whitman College and Union College in 1955, and from the University of Minnesota in 1957. In 1952 he was awarded the Stuart Ballantine Medal of the Franklin Institute, and in 1955 the John Scott Medal.

Walter Houser Brattain discovered the photo-effect that occurs at the free surface of a semiconductor and was co-creator of the point-contact transistor, which paved the way for the more advanced types of transistors that eventually replaced vacuum tubes in almost all electronic devices in the latter half of the 20th century.

Ross got a job teaching science and math in China, and Walter Houser Brattain was born on February 10, 1902 in Amoy. They didn't stay abroad long: by 1903, the Brattains were back in Washington....

Walter Houser Brattain was an American physicist who jointly received the ‘Nobel Prize in Physics’ in 1956 with fellow scientists John Bardeen and William Shockley for their landmark invention of transistor. While Brattain and Bardeen were recognised for their invention of the point-contact transistor, Shockley was credited for inventing ...

Walter Brattain, Walter H. Brattain The American physicist Walter H. Brattain (1902-1987), a co-inventor of the transistor, devoted much of his life to research on su… Electronics, Electronics is a field of engineering and applied physics that grew out of the study and application of electricity . Electricity concerns the genera…