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), Walter Houser Brattain spent the early part of his...

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 society, especially systems of communication. In...

Brattain was born in China, and he grew up on his parents' cattle ranch in Washington state. In 1924 he graduated from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, with a degree in physics and mathematics. He later received his Masters from the...

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. Brattain joined Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1929. Shockley arrived in...

Walter Houser Brattain (February 10, 1902 – October 13, 1987) was an American physicist at Bell Labs who, along with John Bardeen and William Shockley invented the transistor. They shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their...