Monday, July 6, 2009

Walter Houser Brattain


Walter Houser Brattain
Walter Houser Brattain was a physicist, who collaboration with John Bardeen invented the point contact transistor. He shared the 1956 Nobel Prize for Physics with Bardeen and W.B Shockley.

Brattain was educated at Whitman College, the University of Oregon and Minnesota when he gained his Ph.D in 1928.

We he joined the staff of the Bell Telephone Laboratories as a research physicist and remained with them until his retirement in 1967.

In 1940s, Brattain’s interests at Bell centered on the properties of semiconductors as germanium and silicon.

Working with John Bardeen he developed the first workable point contact transistor in 1947 and they published their result in 1948.
Walter Houser Brattain

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