Walter H. Brattain(1902–1987)
PhysicsWalter Houser Brattain 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.
United StatesUnited States Department of Defense
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Major Awards
56
Publications
4,206
Citations
23
h-index
35
i10-index
75.1
Avg Citations/Paper
Awards & Recognition
Nobel Prize in Physics
1956for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect
Bell LabsMost Cited Works
Top publications by citation countRecent Publications
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Beautiful machines
Nature Physics2015
1citations
Open Access0citations
301citations
0citations
The Transistor, A Semiconductor Triode
Proceedings of the IEEE1998
88citations
External Profiles
Co-winners
Shared the same award in the same year
Education
University of Minnesota
University of Oregon
Tonasket High School
Whitman College
University of Oregon College of Arts and Sciences
Doctoral Advisor
John Torrence Tate, Sr.
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Geoffrey E. Hinton
Nobel Prize in Physics (2024)
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John J. Hopfield
Nobel Prize in Physics (2024)
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Nobel Prize in Physics (2023)
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Anne L'Huillier
Nobel Prize in Physics (2023)
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Pierre Agostini
Nobel Prize in Physics (2023)
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