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Walter Houser Brattain

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Details of the Nobel Prize awarded to Walter Houser Brattain
Full Name
of the recipient		Walter Houser Brattain
AwardNobel Prize in Physics
Year of Award1956
Share in Award33.3%
Award Shared withWilliam Bradford Shockley (33.3%)
John Bardeen (33.3%)
Motivation
for the Award		for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect
Affiliation
at the Time of Award		Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA
Place of BirthAmoy, China CHN
Date of Birth10 February 1902
Age
at the time of Award		53 years
Place of DeathSeattle, WA, United States USA
Date of Death13 October 1987
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