biography
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Brattain, Walter H(ouser)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1902–87)
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| biography:
| US physicist, born in Amoy, SE China, where his father was a teacher. He grew up on a cattle ranch in the State of Washington, and studied at the universities of Oregon and Minnesota. In 1929 he joined Bell Telephone Laboratories, where he worked as a research physicist on the surface properties of semiconductors. With Bardeen and Shockley he developed the point-contact transistor, using a thin germanium crystal. He shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1956. |
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