Died 1987-10-13.
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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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science · American physicist (1902–1987) · physicist · inventor · also Walter Houser Brattain, Walter Brattain, Brattain
Born 10 February 1902 · Died 13 October 1987 · Q184577
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1987· 1 entry
1976· 1 entry
But continued to be a consultant at Whitman
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1974· 1 entry
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (1974).
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1967· 1 entry
Continued to teach at Whitman, becoming an adjunct professor in 1972
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1956· 4 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1956).
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Awarded Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award (1956).
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The three men were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics by King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect
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1954· 1 entry
Awarded John Scott Award (1954).
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1953· 1 entry
And went on to form Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory
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1952· 2 entries
Won Stuart Ballantine Medal (1952).
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And at Whitman College as a visiting lecturer in 1962 and 1963, and a visiting professor beginning in 1963
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1951· 1 entry
To go to the University of Illinois, where he eventually won a second Nobel Prize for his theory of superconductivity
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1948· 1 entry
Bell Labs held a press conference to publicly announce their discovery
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1947· 1 entry
Brattain, Bardeen, and Shockley demonstrated the first working transistor to their colleagues at Bell Labs
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1945· 1 entry
Bell Labs reorganized and created a group specifically to do fundamental research in solid-state physics, relating to communications technologies
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1944· 1 entry
Brattain patented a design for a magnetometer head
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1924· 1 entry
With a double major in Physics and Mathematics
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1902· 3 entries
Born 1902-02-10.
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In Amoy (now Xiamen), Fujian, to American parents, Ross R
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“I certainly appreciate the honor. It is a great satisfaction to have done something in life and to have been recognized for it in this way. However, much of my good fortune comes from being in the right place, at the right time, and having the right sort of people to work with.”
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