Walter Houser Brattain (1902-1987)

Awarded the Prize “for his researches on semiconductors their discovery of the transistor effect.”

American physicist. Brattain was born in Amoy, China on February 10, 1902. He graduated from Whitman College, took the M.A. at the University of Oregon, obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota in 1928. In 1929 he joined the Bell Telephone Company with which he worked as a research physicist. Then he taught at Whitman College. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences American Academy of Arts Sciences. Brattain died in Seattle on October 13, 1987.