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Brattain, Walter Houser (1902–1987)| US physicist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1956 jointly with William Shockley and John Bardeen for their work on the development of the transistor, which replaced the comparatively costly and clumsy vacuum tube in electronics. |
| He was born in Amoy, China, the son of a teacher. From 1929 to 1967 he was on the staff of Bell Telephone Laboratories. |
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