Brattain

American  

[brat-n] / ˈbræt n /

noun

1. Walter Houser 1902–1987, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1956.

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Brattain British  

/ ˈbrætən /

noun

1. 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

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Brattain Scientific  

/ 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.

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Example Sentences

John Bardeen, William Shockley and Walter Brattain invented the transistor at Bell Labs in 1947, and were awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work.Credit:

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It used the same mathematics, the same foundational theories, the same scientific methods used by the Curies, Heisenberg, Bardeen, Brattain, Shockley, and Higgs.

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