Walter Houser Brattain
Walter Houser Brattain | |
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Brattain in 1956 | |
| Born | February 10, 1902 |
| Died | October 13, 1987 (aged 85) Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
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| Known for | Inventing the point-contact transistor (1947) |
| Spouses | Karen Gilmore
(m. 1935; died 1957)Emma Jane Miller (m. 1958) |
| Children | 1 |
| Relatives | Robert Brattain (brother) |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Solid-state physics |
| Institutions | Bell Labs (1929–1967) |
| Doctoral advisor | John Torrence Tate Sr. |
Walter Houser Brattain (/ˈbrætən/; February 10, 1902 – October 13, 1987) was an American solid-state physicist who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Bardeen and William Shockley for their invention of the point-contact transistor. Brattain devoted much of his life to research on surface states.