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Walter Brattain

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Walter Brattain was an American physicist at Bell Telephone Laboratories who worked with John Bardeen to build the first working point-contact transistor in December 1947, contributing the experimental skill that turned Bardeen's theoretical insight into a working device. He shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics with Bardeen and William Shockley.

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Birth Year
1902 1
Death Year
1987 1
Nationality
American 1
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Source A History of TechnologyCharles Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall and Trevor I. Williams, editors

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Source Technology: A World HistoryDaniel R. Headrick
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1. A History of Technology
Charles Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall and Trevor I. Williams, editors, Oxford University Press, 1954
Technology: A World History
Daniel R. Headrick, Oxford University Press, 2009
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