Walter Houser Brattain ( / ˈbrætən /; February 10, 1902 – October 13, 1987) 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. [1] They shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their invention.
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Walter Houser Brattain ( / ˈbrætən /; February 10, 1902 – October 13, 1987) 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. [1] They shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their invention.
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—and for ...
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 Work
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W alter H. Brattain was born in Amoy, China, on February 10, 1902, the son of Ross R. Brattain and Ottilie Houser. He spent his childhood and youth in the State of Washington and received a B.S. degree from Whitman College in 1924.
Walter Houser Brattain was the third member of the team at Bell Telephone Laboratories who succeeded in creating the first transistor in history, and while Shockley and Bardeen are relatively unknown, Brattain is even more so.
(Physicist) 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.
On October 13, 1987, American physicist and Nobel Laureate Walter Houser Brattain passed away. At Bell Labs, Brattain along with fellow scientists John Bardeen and William Shockley, invented the point-contact transistor in December, 1947, for which they shared he 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics. Youth and Education
Nobel Prize Recipient. Walter Houser Brattain, an American physicist, received world-wide recognition for being awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics. He co-shared the covet award with two other Americans, John Bardeen and William Bradford Shockley. According to the Nobel Prize committee, the award was given for...
Walter Houser Brattain. American physicist who was awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize for Physics, with John Bardeen and William Shockley, for research on semiconductors and creating the transistor. Brattain joined Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1929. Shockley arrived in 1936 and designed various semiconductor devices that Brattain built and tested.
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....