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Walter Houser Brattain

Walter Houser Brattain
Walter Houser Brattain, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)

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.

10 February 1902

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