Brattain

[ brat-n ]

noun

1. Walter Hou·ser [hou, -zer], 1902–1987, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1956.

Brattain

/ ˈbrætən /

noun

1. BrattainWalter Houser19021987MUSSCIENCE: physicist Walter Houser . 1902–87, US physicist, who shared the Nobel prize for physics (1956) with W. B. Shockley and John Bardeen for their invention of the transistor

Brattain

/ brăt′n /

1. American physicist who, with John Bardeen and William Shockley, invented the transistor in 1947. For this work all three shared the 1956 Nobel Prize for physics.