Walter Houser Brattain
Walter Houser Brattain was born on February 10, 1902. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Walter Houser Brattain
Walter Houser Brattain ( BRAT-n; 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. Brattain devoted much of his life to research on surface states.