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Walter H. Brattain

Walter H. BrattainAKA Walter Houser Brattain

Born: 10-Feb-1902
Birthplace: Amoy, China
Died: 13-Oct-1987
Location of death: Seattle, WA
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Physicist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Co-Inventor of the transistor

Father: Ross R. Brattain
Mother: Ottilie Houser
Wife: Keren Gilmore Brattain (m. 1935, one son)
Son: William Gilmore Brattain
Wife: Emma Jane Kirsch Miller (m. 1958)

    University: BS, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA (1924)
    University: MA, University of Oregon (1926)
    University: PhD, University of Minnesota (1929)
    Professor: Adjunct Professor, Whitman College (1967-72)

    Bell Laboratories (1929-41 and 1944-)
    Nobel Prize for Physics 1956 (with John Bardeen and William Shockley)
    National Inventors Hall of Fame
    National Academy of Sciences
    American Physical Society
    American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    American Association for the Advancement of Science
    Franklin Institute


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