- Born
- February 10, 1902
- Died
- October 13, 1987 (aged 85)
- Known as
- physicist, inventor
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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