Walter Houser Brattain
American physicist
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... Wikipedia
Born: February 10, 1902, China-Amoy
Died: October 13, 1987 (age 85 years), Seattle, WA
Parents: Ross Brattain
Education: Princeton University, University of Minnesota, University of Oregon, and more
Partner: Keren Gilmore Brattain (1935–)
Known for: Transistor
Awards: Stuart Ballantine Medal (1952) and Nobel Prize in Physics (1956)