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Walter Houser Brattain

1902–1987

Walter Houser Brattain (1902–1987) was an American physicist who co-invented the transistor at Bell Labs in 1947, earning the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956. His experimental work on semiconductor surfaces and point-contact transistors revolutionized electronics, and he remained a hands-on scientist deeply skeptical of theoretical abstraction.

Physics

The Transistor: A Case History (1956 Nobel Lecture)
Surface States and Rectification at a Metal-Semiconductor Contact (1947, with John Bardeen)
Physical Principles Involved in Transistor Action (1949, with J. Bardeen and W. Shockley)
The Physics of Semiconductor Surfaces (1955, review article)
Oral History Interview with Walter H. Brattain (1964, IEEE History Center)

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