The Nobel Prize in Physics 1956
Awarded on: 1956-11-01
"for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect"
Affiliations:
- Bell Telephone Laboratories – Murray Hill, NJ, USA
Walter Houser Brattain
Born: 1902-02-10 in Amoy, China
Gender: male
Field: American physicist (1902–1987)
Biography
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.