# Walter Houser Brattain

> He helped build the single invention that made the modern world possible: the transistor. The 1956 Nobel Prize marked the moment physics became engineering, and Walter Brattain stood at the hinge.

*American physicist (1902–1987)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1902-02-10
- **Died:** 1987-10-13
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born February 10, 1902, Brattain was an American physicist who spent most of his career studying surface states — the behavior of materials at their boundaries. That focus led him into collaboration with John Bardeen and William Shockley, and in their lab the three invented the point-contact transistor. The Nobel committee awarded them the 1956 Prize in Physics, recognizing the device that would underpin every computer, phone, and circuit to follow. Brattain died October 13, 1987, decades into the age his work had quietly built.

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## Topics
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