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Walter Brattain

 
Amoy, China 10.February.1902 - Seattle Wash, USA 13.October.1897

 


Documents
 

US Patent 2524035, October 3, 1950-Three circuit element electrode utilizing semiconductive materials
 
Walter H. Brattain Surface properties of semiconductors -Nobel Lecture 11 dicembre 1956
 

Brief biographical history
 
 
 
     
1902
Born on February 10 in china by Ross R.Brattain e  Ottilie Houser. 
 
1903
The family Brattain returns to Washington
 
1924
Study at Whitman College
   
1926
He studied at the 'University of Oregon
   
1929
He graduated from the University of Minnesota
Enter the Bell Telephone as a researcher.

   
1935 They married Keren Brattain (Gilmore), which will have a son, William Gilmore Brattain
   
1956  He received the Nobel Prize with Shockley and Bardeen to the invention of the transistor.
 
1958
He remarried to Emma Jane (Kirsch) Miller
 
1987 October 13 Wash dies in Seattle, USA