| Walter H. Brattain  AKA Walter Houser Brattain
Born: 10-Feb-1902
Birthplace: Amoy, China
Died: 13-Oct-1987
Location of death: Seattle, WA
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Co-Inventor of the transistor Father: Ross R. Brattain
Mother: Ottilie Houser
Wife: Keren Gilmore Brattain (m. 1935, one son)
Son: William Gilmore Brattain
Wife: Emma Jane Kirsch Miller (m. 1958)
University: BS, Whitman College (1924)
University: MA, University of Oregon (1926)
University: PhD, University of Minnesota (1929)
Professor: Adjunct Professor, Whitman College (1967-72)
Bell Laboratories (1929-41 and 1944-)
Nobel Prize for Physics 1956 (with John Bardeen and William Shockley)
National Inventors Hall of Fame
National Academy of Sciences
American Physical Society
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Franklin Institute
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