List of Famous people with last name Brattain

Walter Houser Brattain

First Name Walter
Last Name Brattain
Born on February 10, 1902
Died on October 13, 1987 (aged 85)

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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