Walter brittain biography
Walter Houser Brattain was an American physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with John Bardeen and William Shockley for their invention of the point-contact transistor....
Walter Houser Brattain (/ˈbrætən/; February 10, – October 13, ) was an American physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with John Bardeen.
Walter Houser Brattain
American physicist (1902–1987)
Walter Houser Brattain (; February 10, 1902 – October 13, 1987) 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.[1] Brattain devoted much of his life to research on surface states.
Biography
Walter Brattain was born in Amoy (now Xiamen), Fujian, Qing China, to American parents Ross R. Brattain and Ottilie Houser Brattain. His father was of Scottish descent, while his mother's parents were both immigrants from Stuttgart, Germany.[2][3] Ross R.
Brattain was a teacher at the Ting-Wen Institute,[4]: 11 a private school for Chinese boys; Ottilie Houser Brattain was a gifted mathematician.[5] Both were graduates of Whitman College.[3]: 71 [6] Ottilie and baby Walter returned to the United States in 1903, and R