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Walter Houser Brattain

 

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The Genesis of the Transistor, with Bonus Introduction - ATvesvesT Archives

 

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The Transistor: a 1953 documentary, anticipating its coming impact on technology

 

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AT&T Archives: Dr. Walter Brattain on Semiconductor Physics

Biography

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TODAY IN HISTORY - Birthday of physicist, Dr. Walter H. Brattain - 10 Feb 2011

 

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Tribute to Walter Houser Brattain an American physicist who won the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics

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 invention. Brattain devoted much of his life to research on surface states.