Name: Walter Brattain

Born: February 10, 1902, Amoy, China

Death: October 13, 1987 (Age: 85)

  • American physicist at Bell Labs who helped invent the transistor.
  • They shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their invention.
  • He devoted much of his life to research on surface states.

Honors and awards

  • Stuart Ballantine Medal (1952).
  • Nobel Prize in Physics (1956).
  • John Bardeen
  • William Shockley