Walter Houser Brattain

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.

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Who was born first?

• Walter Houser Brattain and Sergey Lebedev were born the same year
• Walter Houser Brattain and Charles Lindbergh were born the same year
• Walter Houser Brattain and Felix Wankel were born the same year
• Walter Houser Brattain was born 1 year after Frank Zamboni
• Walter Houser Brattain was born 1 year after Zeppo Marx

Timeline

1. Frank ZamboniJanuary 16, 1901 – July 27, 1988
2. Zeppo MarxFebruary 25, 1901 – November 1979
3. Charles LindberghFebruary 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974
4. Felix WankelAugust 13, 1902 – October 9, 1988
5. Sergey LebedevNovember 2, 1902 – July 3, 1974
6. Walter Houser Brattain (this page)February 10, 1902 – October 13, 1987

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