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Walter Houser Brattain

1902 - 1987

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Walter Houser Brattain (; February 10, 1902 – October 13, 1987) was an American physicist at Bell Labs who, along with fellow scientists John Bardeen and William Shockley, invented the point-contact transistor in December 1947. They shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their invention. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Houser Brattain has received more than 372,064 page views. His biography is available in 74 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 70 in 2019). Walter Houser Brattain is the 115th most popular physicist (up from 120th in 2019), the 92nd most popular biography from China (up from 110th in 2019) and the most popular Chinese Physicist.

Walter Houser Brattain is most famous for his work in the field of solid-state physics, and in particular for his work on the transistor. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Walter Houser Brattain ranks 115 out of 851. Before him are Heinrich Rohrer, Ben Roy Mottelson, Hippolyte Fizeau, Peter Debye, Anders Jonas Ångström, and Joseph Henry. After him are Arnold Sommerfeld, Paul Langevin, Joseph von Fraunhofer, K. Alex Müller, James Franck, and Isamu Akasaki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Walter Houser Brattain ranks 20. Before him are Fernand Braudel, Saud of Saudi Arabia, Nâzım Hikmet, Alfred Kastler, Kurt Alder, and Barbara McClintock. After him are Arne Tiselius, Ray Kroc, William Wyler, Josemaría Escrivá, Arne Jacobsen, and Meyer Lansky. Among people deceased in 1987, Walter Houser Brattain ranks 13. Before him are Louis de Broglie, Gunnar Myrdal, Rita Hayworth, Marguerite Yourcenar, Fred Astaire, and Thomas Sankara. After him are Andrey Kolmogorov, Maria von Trapp, William P. Murphy, Pola Negri, Lawrence Kohlberg, and James Baldwin.

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In China

Among people born in China, Walter Houser Brattain ranks 92 out of 1,610. Before him are Emperor Wen of Sui (541), Toghon Temür (1320), Hongxi Emperor (1378), Zhou Yu (175), Qu Yuan (-343), and Hua Tuo (200). After him are An Lushan (702), Yang Guifei (719), Qin Er Shi (-229), Emperor Guangwu of Han (-5), Dorgon (1612), and Zhang Heng (78).

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Among PHYSICISTS In China

Among physicists born in China, Walter Houser Brattain ranks 1. After him are Yang Chen-Ning (1922), Tsung-Dao Lee (1926), Chien-Shiung Wu (1912), Qian Xuesen (1911), Daniel C. Tsui (1939), and He Jiankui (1984).

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