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 solid-state physicist (1902–1987)
Biography
Walter Houser Brattain was an American solid-state 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.