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Walter Houser Brattain (/ ˈ b r æ t ən /; February 10, 1902 – October 13, 1987) 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 invention.
Walter H. Brattain was an American scientist who, along with John Bardeen and William B. Shockley, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1956 for his investigation of the properties of semiconductors—materials of which transistors are made—and for the development of the transistor.
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English: 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 invention. Magyar: Walter Houser Brattain (Kína, Amoy, 1902. február 10.
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Dec 18, 2017 · The image below shows two pages of this notebook, dated December 19 and 24, 1947, at one of the critical junctures for the success of the invention: Brattain’s notes in his laboratory notebook / Image: Transistorized. It was Brattain with his skill and imagination who was responsible for building the first point-contact transistor. In order ...
Photo gallery. 1 (of 1) From left: John Bardeen, William B. Shockley and Walter H. Brattain. The photo was produced by Bell Labs around the time of the public announcement of the invention (30 June 1948). By AT&T, New York. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Photo: Jack St. (last part of name not stamped well enough to read) See all photos.
Dec 12, 2022 · "The Surface State Job" By David Laws | December 12, 2022. Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of Bardeen and Brattain's Invention of the Transistor. We should tell Shockley what we did today. — Walter Brattain.
