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Brattain

[brat-n]

noun

Walter Hou·ser [hou-zer] , 1902–1987, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1956.

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Brattain (ˈbræt^ən)

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	Walter Houser. 1902--87, US physicist, who shared the Nobel prize for physics (1956) with W. B. Shockley and John Bardeen for their invention of the transistor

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American physicist who, with John Bardeen and William Shockley, invented the transistor in 1947. For this work all three shared the 1956 Nobel Prize for physics.

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