walter houser brat tain

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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"Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the face. His son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face the gentleman that sat next to him and said "Box about: 'twill come to my father anon.""

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