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Walter Brattain

Inventor of transistor

Born on: February 10, 1902
Died on: October 13, 1987
Aged: 85 years 245 days (1028 months)
Nationality: American
Birth Sign: Aquarius

 

Walter Brattain

Walter Houser Brattain was an American 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.


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