Walter Brattain was an American physicist at Bell Telephone Laboratories who worked with John Bardeen to build the first working point-contact transistor in December 1947, contributing the experimental skill that turned Bardeen's theoretical insight into a working device. He shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics with Bardeen and William Shockley.
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Co-invented the transistor.
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Source A History of TechnologyCharles Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall and Trevor I. Williams, editors
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Source Technology: A World HistoryDaniel R. Headrick
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Charles Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall and Trevor I. Williams, editors, Oxford University Press, 1954View the Source Technology: A World History
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The first working device was a point-contact transistor invented in 1947 by physicists John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley at Bell Labs who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their achievement.
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