Walter Houser Brattain, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Walter Houser Brattain

American physicist

Date of Birth: 10-Feb-1902

Place of Birth: Xiamen, Fujian, China

Date of Death: 13-Oct-1987

Profession: physicist, inventor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Walter Houser Brattain (; 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 of 1947.
They shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their invention.
Brattain devoted much of his life to research on surface states.