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Walter Houser Brattain

1902 - 1987

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Walter Houser Brattain ( BRAT-uhn; February 10, 1902 – October 13, 1987) was an American solid-state physicist who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Bardeen and William Shockley for their invention of the point-contact transistor. Brattain devoted much of his life to research on surface states. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Walter Houser Brattain is the 151st most popular physicist (down from 115th in 2019), the 85th most popular biography from China (up from 92nd in 2019) and the most popular Chinese Physicist.

Walter Houser Brattain is most famous for his work in the field of solid-state physics, and in particular for his work on the transistor. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Walter Houser Brattain ranks 151 out of 851. Before him are Rudolf Mössbauer, Kai Siegbahn, Clifford Shull, John Bardeen, Nicolaas Bloembergen, and George Paget Thomson. After him are Henry Moseley, Laura Bassi, John Kendrew, Javier Solana, Jean-Baptiste Biot, and Frits Zernike.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Walter Houser Brattain ranks 18. Before him are Eugene Wigner, Kurt Alder, Saud of Saudi Arabia, Fernand Braudel, Alfred Kastler, and Barbara McClintock. After him are Arne Tiselius, Talcott Parsons, André Michel Lwoff, Josemaría Escrivá, Alva Myrdal, and William Wyler. Among people deceased in 1987, Walter Houser Brattain ranks 12. Before him are Primo Levi, Lee Byung-chul, John Howard Northrop, Rita Hayworth, Andrey Kolmogorov, and Fred Astaire. After him are Gunnar Myrdal, Marguerite Yourcenar, William Stuart-Houston, William P. Murphy, Thomas Sankara, and Jacques Anquetil.

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In China

Among people born in China, Walter Houser Brattain ranks 85 out of 1,610. Before him are Soong Ching-ling (1893), Fuxi (-2900), Jiang Qing (1914), Shang Yang (-390), Xuande Emperor (1399), and Wu Cheng'en (1500). After him are Emperor Yao (-2324), Hu Yaobang (1915), Daoguang Emperor (1782), Zhang Heng (78), Hongxi Emperor (1378), and Emperor Gaozong of Tang (628).

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Among PHYSICISTS In China

Among physicists born in China, Walter Houser Brattain ranks 1. After him are Tsung-Dao Lee (1926), Chien-Shiung Wu (1912), Yang Chen-Ning (1922), Daniel C. Tsui (1939), Qian Xuesen (1911), and He Jiankui (1984).

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