Walter Houser Brattain

Walter Houser Brattain
Brattain c. 1950
Born	(1902-02-10)February 10, 1902 Xiamen, Fujian, China
Died	October 13, 1987(1987-10-13) (aged 85) Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Whitman College University of Oregon University of Minnesota
Known for	Transistor
Relatives	Robert Brattain (brother)
Awards	Stuart Ballantine Medal (1952) Nobel Prize in Physics (1956)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics, electronic engineering
Institutions	Whitman College Bell Laboratories
Doctoral advisor	John Torrence Tate Sr.

Walter Houser Brattain (/ˈbrætən/; February 10, 1902 – October 13, 1987) was an American physicist at Bell Labs who, along with fellow scientists John Bardeen and William Shockley, invented the point-contact transistor in December 1947.^[1] They shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their invention. Brattain devoted much of his life to research on surface states.