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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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