Walter Houser Brattain invented the transitor

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Walter Houser Brattain

Walter Houser Brattain

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. He devoted much of his life to research on surface states.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter Houser Brattain
Reid, T. R., 2001, The Chip: Random House, New York, 309p.

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