Walter Houser Brattain

Walter Houser Brattain

Nobel Prize in Physics 1956

“for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect”

Walter Houser Brattain was an American physicist affiliated with Bell Telephone Laboratories. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 with John Bardeen and William Shockley for researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect.

Field
Physics · Solid-state Physics
Lifespan
1902–1987