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Walter Houser Brattain
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<p>Walter Houser Brattain was an American <a href="/facts/Physicist/cQcgvSIm">physicist</a> who shared the 1956 <a href="/facts/Nobel_Prize_in_Physics/o6w1nCbr">Nobel Prize in Physics</a> with <a href="/facts/John_Bardeen/kbj763Fh">John Bardeen</a> and <a href="/facts/William_Shockley/wxlv4TcI">William Shockley</a> for their invention of the <a href="/facts/Point-contact_transistor/29Qgz5RC">point-contact transistor</a>. Brattain devoted much of his life to research on <a href="/facts/Surface_states/XQA64So2">surface states</a>. </p>