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more general categories information about this item 10. Noble Prize 10. Noble Prize Physics (209) 11. Award Year 11. Award Year 1950s (72) 1956 (9) 12. Winner Type 12. Winner Type Person (904) 13. Gender 13. Gender Male (853) 14. Birth Year 14. Birth Year 1900s (92) 1902 (13) 15. Place of Birth 15. Place of Birth Asia (96) Asia, northeast (41) China (12) Xiamen (1) 16. Death Year 16. Death Year 1980s (66) 1987 (8) 17. Place of Death 17. Place of Death North America (223) United States (214) Western states (63) Washington (5) Seattle (5) 19. Given Name 19. Given Name S-Z (143) W (48) 20. Family Name 20. Family Name A-D (195) B (80) 21. Shared Given Name 21. Shared Given Name S-Z (69) W (37) Walter (6) 23. Religion 23. Religion z-Missing value reason (465) Source data not available (465) 24. Age at Award Time 24. Age at Award Time 50 - 59 (231) 55 (29) 32. Occupations 32. Occupations Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations (601) Physical Scientists (333) Astronomers and Physicists (222) Physicists (206) 34. Citizens 34. Citizens North America (328) United States (307) 38. Worked for Corporation 38. Worked for Corporation North America (23) United States (23) Middle Atlantic states (9) Bell Labs (7) New Jersey (6) Murray Hill (4) 42. Affilliation with College or University 42. Affilliation with College or University North America (529) United States (521) Midwestern states (201) Minnesota (29) Minneapolis (29) University of Minnesota (29) Alumni (9) Northeastern states (374) Massachusetts (226) Cambridge (217) Harvard (159) Short-term academic staff (75) New York (216) New York City (168) Columbia University (96) Short-term academic staff (38) 44. Memberships 44. Memberships A-D (656) A (635) American Academy of Arts and Sciences (531) American Association for the Advancement of Science (95) American Physical Society (113) E-P (571) N (352) National Academy of Sciences (334) 45. Other Awards 45. Other Awards I-J (268) J (208) John Scott Medal (11) M-N (333) N (205) National Inventor Hall of Fame (33) Q-Z (398) R (196) Richtmyer Memorial Award (23) S (125) Stuart Ballantine Medal (10) complete name: Walter Houser Brattain nobel prize: physics award year: 1956 together with: John Bardeen together with: William Shockley prize share: Prize share: 1/3 rational: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1956 was awarded jointly to William Bradford Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect." biography: Biography laureate facts: Facts laureate lecture: Lecture given name: Walter family name: Brattain occupation: physicist occupation: inventor field of work: physics work location: Whitman College, 345 Boyer Ave, Walla Walla, WA, 99362, United States of America description: Walter Houser Brattain was an American physicist at Bell Labs who, along with fellow scientists John Bardeen and William Shockley, invented the point-contact transistor in December, 1947. They shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their invention. Brattain devoted much of his life to research on surface states. image copyright: Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. image citation: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1956. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1956/summary/> date birth: 1902 date death: 1987 usual name: Walter Brattain
