Walter Houser Brattain (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.
Walter Houser Brattain
solid-state physicist
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American solid-state physicist
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Walter Houser Brattain, American solid-state physicist, known for american solid-state physicist, was born on 1902-02-10.
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