Walter Houser Brattain Summary

Walter Houser Brattain 1902-1987 American physicist who was awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize for Physics, with John Bardeen and William Shockley, for research on semiconductors and creating the transistor... Read more

The American physicist Walter H. Brattain (1902-1987), a co-inventor of the transistor, devoted much of his life to research on surface states.Although he was born in Amoy, China (February 10, 1902), ... Read more

A small semiconducting device capable of great amplification, the transistor, invented by Walter Houser Brattain and colleagues John Bardeen and William Shockley, revolutionized many aspects of modern... Read more