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Walter Houser Brattain

	Walter Brattain, Part 1 of 3
		Brattain's first job out of graduate school was at the National Bureau of Standards as a radio engineer, but after a year there he wanted to get back to physics.
		Brattain, raised on a working ranch with a rifle in his saddle bags to shoot rattlesnakes, laughed.
		Brattain, who at first thought it was a practical joke, gave an off-the-cuff explanation that electrical current was being generated at a barrier inside.
	www.pbs.org /transistor/album1/brattain/index.html (723 words)

	Mag Lab Education - Pioneers in Electricity and Magnetism: Walter Brattain
		Walter Houser Brattain discovered the photo-effect that occurs at the free surface of a semiconductor and was co-creator of the point-contact transistor, which paved the way for the more advanced types of transistors that eventually replaced vacuum tubes in almost all electronic devices in the latter half of the 20th century.
		Brattain was born to Ross Brattain and Ottilie Houser on February 10, 1902, in Amoy, China, where the elder Brattain worked as a teacher.
		Brattain decided to continue his education, resulting in a M.S. from the University of Oregon in 1926 and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1929.
	www.magnet.fsu.edu /education/tutorials/pioneers/brattain.html (0 words)

	Walter H. Brattain - Biography
		Walter H. Brattain was born in Amoy, China, on February 10, 1902, the son of Ross R. Brattain and Ottilie Houser.
		Dr. Brattain received the honorary Doctor of Science degree from Portland University in 1952, from Whitman College and Union College in 1955, and from the University of Minnesota in 1957.
		Dr. Brattain is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and of the Franklin Institute; a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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	Walter H. Brattain Relationships plus Walter H. Brattain and You
		Walter Brattain appreciates relationships in which his love partner allows him plenty of freedom and is not very emotionally demanding.
		Walter wants to contribute something positive and loving to the world at large and he wants to be recognized for his beauty, artistic gifts, or loving generosity.
		Walter Brattain seems to have an unusual power of attraction to other people and frequently may associate with others whether they are good for him or not.
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	Walter Houser Brattain Summary
		Brattain undertook the investigation of the properties of the surface states, and in the course of his experiments he and Bardeen discovered a means of constructing a solid state amplifier that was distinct from Shockley's field-effect device.
		Brattain began his experiments by measuring the change in potential of the surface of a crystal of silicon (with reference to an electrode near that surface) when it was exposed to light.
		Brattain subsequently found that by introducing an electrolyte between his reference electrode and the semiconductor surface and applying a bias to the electrode, he could greatly influence the potential produced by illumination of the semiconductor.
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	Walter Brattain Walter H. Brattain 10.02.1902-13.10.1989 Nobel Prize n Physics 1956
		Walter H. Brattain was born in Amoy, China, on February 10, 1902, the son of Ross R. Brattain and Ottilie Houser.
		Brattain received the honorary Doctor of Science degree from Portland University in 1952, from Whitman College and Union College in 1955, and from the University of Minnesota in 1957.
		Brattain is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and of the Franklin Institute; a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
	www.ideasplanet.org /en/great.23.html (474 words)

	Walter Houser Brattain
		Walter Houser Brattain (February 10, 1902 –; October 13, 1987) was a physicist at Bell Labs who, along with John Bardeen, invented the transistor.
		Brattain's advisor was John T. Tate, and his thesis was on electron impact in mercury vapor.
		Brattain's concerns at Bell Laboratories in the years before World War II were first in the surface physics of tungsten and later in the surfaces of the semiconductors cuprous oxide and silicon.
	www.mlahanas.de /Physics/Bios/WalterHouserBrattain.html (676 words)

	Connected Earth: Brattain, Walter H. (1865-1945)
		Brattain, Walter H. Walter Brattain was one of the trio of scientists who created the transistor, for which he won a Nobel prize in 1956.
		Brattain was born in China, but with his parents moved back to Washington state, USA to study.
		Brattain joined forces with John Bardeen and William Shockley in groundbreaking research that led them to create the transistor in 1947.
	www.connected-earth.com /Galleries/Pioneersandpersonalities/B/Brattain/index.htm (155 words)

	Boston Globe Online / Table of Contents
		Brattain, John Bardeen and William Shockley, all research scientists at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., shared the physics prize for their research in semiconductors and the discovery of the transistor effect in 1947.
		Brattain was raised and educated in Washington state and received a bachelor's degree from Whitman College in Walla Walla in 1924.
		Brattain was elected to the National Inventors' Hall of Fame.
	www.boston.com /globe/search/stories/nobel/1987/1987r.html (169 words)

	February - March 2002 TE Short Circuit - Engineering Hall of Fame
		Nobel Physicist Walter Houser Brattain was born on 10 February 1902 in Amoy, China, where his father worked as a teacher.
		Brattain graduated from Whitman College (Wash.) in 1924, received a master's degree from the University of Oregon, and earned a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1929.
		Becker and Brattain were among those who suggested that it might be possible to design a solid-state amplifier, even though previous attempts made to build such a device had failed.
	www.todaysengineer.org /careerfocus/feb02te/feb02shorts/history.html (483 words)

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		Brattain was conscious of documenting his life and particularly his opinions regarding a proper education, however, he does not leave us much as to his daily life at Whitman College or, for the interest of the museum, his experience of living in the Kirkman House.
		Walter’s mother, Ottilie Houser, was born in Colville, Washington Territory and baptized by Cushing Eells, founder of Whitman College.
		Brattain consistently attributes his success to the fact that he had the privilege to study under and work with certain individuals in the fields of math and physics.
	www.kirkmanhousemuseum.org /Other/Brattainy.doc (11000 words)

	Walter Brattain (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Brattain and Bardeen, working in 1947, observed that when electrical signals were applied to contacts on a crystal of germanium, the power became amplified.
		However Brattain resented publicity that implied Shockley was one of the inventors, and Bardeen left Bell Labs in 1951 because of conflicts with Shockley.
		Brattain, Bardeen and Shockley won the 1956 Nobel Prize in physics for the transistor, a tiny chip of processed crystal whose name comes from a combination of "transfer" and "resistor." The device regulates the flow of electric current through a combination of conductivity and resistance.
	www.ce.org /Events/Awards/457.htm (265 words)

	Brattain
		Brattain was assigned to a new solid state group with Stanley Morgan and William Shockley at the head.
		Brattain's chief contributions to solid state physics have been the discovery of the photo-effect at the free surface of a semiconductor and work leading to a better understanding of the surface properties of semiconductors.
		Walter Houser Brattain died of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 85 on October 13, 1987.
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	History
		John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley were working on a project to find new means of signal amplification.
		What Brattain also noticed was that increasing positive voltage increased the overall effect even more, while changing it to negative eliminated the effect completely.
		Brattain kept good notes of all the experiments, some of which can be viewed here.
	www.rit.edu /~dlb7586/Intro_CE/ImportantEvents.htm (1028 words)

	Walter Brattain, Part 2 of 3
		After World War II Brattain spent the war years working on ways to detect submarines, and then returned to Bell Labs to find Kelly was reorganizing the researchers.
		Brattain was assigned to a new solid state group with Stanley Morgan and Bill Shockley at the head.
		Walter Brattain shows his parents around the lab after the invention of the transistor was announced
	www.pbs.org /transistor/album1/brattain/brattain2.html (0 words)

	Engology.com, Engineer Walter Brattain, Engineer Inventor, Co-Inventor of the Transistor, High Profile Engineers, ...
		Encouraged by his professor Benjamin Brown to continue his studies, Brattain went on to the University of Oregon for his Masters and to the University of Minnesota for a Ph.D..
		Brattain's first job out of graduate school was at the National Bureau of Standards as a radio engineer, but after a year there he wanted to get back to physics.
		Brattain, raised on a working ranch with a rifle in his saddle bags to shoot rattlesnakes, laughed.
	www.engology.com /eng5brattain.htm (770 words)

	Inventor of the Week: Archive
		Brattain was born in Amoy, China on Feb. 10, 1902.
		Brattain majored in physics and math at Whitman College and went on to the University of Oregon where he earned a Masters degree, and then to the University of Minnesota where he completed his Ph.D. In 1929 Brattain began working for Bell Labs.
		Shockley died in 1989, and Brattain in 1987.
	web.mit.edu /invent/iow/shockleyetal.html (874 words)

	USS Brattain - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki
		The USS Brattain (NCC-21166) was a Miranda-class science vessel, constructed by the Yoyodyne Division at 40 Eridani A Starfleet Construction Yards and commissioned on stardate 22519.5.
		In mid-2367, the Brattain mysteriously disappeared and was discovered by the USS Enterprise-D twenty-nine days later trapped in a Tyken's Rift near an uncharted binary star system.
		The Brattain was a reuse of the Reliant model from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
	memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/USS_Brattain (264 words)

	Brattain, Walter Houser
		Dr. Brattain received the honorary Doctor of Science degree from Portland University in 1952, from Whitman College and Union College in 1955, and from the University of Minnesota in 1957.
		Dr. Brattain is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and of the Franklin Institute; a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
		Brattain lives in Summit, New Jersey, near the Murray Hill (N.J.) laboratory of Bell Telephone Laboratories.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/B/Brattain/1.html (327 words)

	HistoryLink Essay:Tonasket native Walter Brattain receives the Nobel Prize for Physics on December 10, 1956.
		Walter Houser Brattain was born in China in 1902 where his father was a teacher in a Chinese boys' school.
		On the 25th anniversary of the invention, Brattain said: "The thing I deplore most is the use of solid-state electronics by rock-and-roll musicians to raise the level of sound to where it is both painful and injurious" (The New York Times).
		Walter Brattain retired to Seattle and died there in 1987.
	www.historylink.org /essays/printer_friendly/index.cfm?file_id=7613 (471 words)

	Physics at Minnesota: Minnesota Physics Nobel Laureates
		Walter H. Brattain spent three years at the University Minnesota and received his Ph.D. in 1929.
		Brattain discovered the photo-effect at the free surface of a semiconductor; with Bardeen he invented the point-contact transistor, and his research led to a better understanding of the surface properties of semiconductors, with Bardeen, Garrett, and Boddy.
		Walter Brattain won the Nobel Prize in 1956 with John Bardeen and William Shockley for their research on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect.
	www.physics.umn.edu /info/nobel.html (630 words)

	Talk:USS Brattain - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki
		The shooting model was labeled "Brittain", "Brattain" is legible in Captain Chantal Zaheva's log, on the ship's MSD and on several bridge consoles, however.
		It's Brattain in the script as well, and as I previously wrote, it's not only seen on "one graphic...on a computer screen" but at several places on screens and on the bridge of the ship itself.
		Furthermore, Walter Houser Brattain is an actual person, a physicist, and the starship is very likely named after him.
	memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/Talk:USS_Brattain (906 words)

	Mag Lab Education - Pioneers in Electricity and Magnetism: Alphabetical Index
		The first time his co-recipients were Walter Brattain and William Shockley, who combined their efforts with Brattain in the invention of the transistor.
		Walter Brattain (1902-1987) – Walter Houser Brattain discovered the photo-effect that occurs at the free surface of a semiconductor and was co-creator of the point-contact transistor, which paved the way for the more advanced types of transistors that eventually replaced vacuum tubes in almost all electronic devices in the latter half of the twentieth century.
		William Shockley (1910-1989) – William Bradford Shockley was head of the solid-state physics team at Bell Labs that developed the first point-contact transistor, which he quickly followed up with the invention of the more advanced junction transistor.
	www.magnet.fsu.edu /education/tutorials/pioneers (0 words)

	Brattain Walter Houser - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Brattain Walter Houser - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Brattain, Walter Houser (1902-1987), American physicist and Nobel laureate, born in Amoy, China.
		The transistor was developed at Bell Laboratories by the American physicists Walter Houser Brattain, John Bardeen, and William Bradford Shockley.
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	Walter Hauser Brattain (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Brattain earned a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, and in 1929 he became a research physicist for Bell Telephone Laboratories.
		His chief field of research involved the surface properties of solids, particularly the atomic structure of a material at the surface, which usually differs from its atomic structure in the interior.
		After leaving Bell Laboratories in 1967, Brattain served as adjunct professor at Whitman College, Walla Walla, Wash. (1967-72), then was designated overseer emeritus.
	physics.nobel.brainparad.com /walter_hauser_brattain.html (194 words)

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		John Bardeen was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1956, jointly with Walter Brattain and William Shockley, for research into semiconductors and...
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		Walter Brattain was one of the trio of scientists who created the transistor, for which he won a Nobel prize in 1956.
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	IEEEVM: Walter H. Brattain
		Walter Brattain was born in 1902 to Ross and Ottilie Brattain, who were in China where Ross was teaching.
		Brattain grew up on a cattle ranch in Washington and later claimed that he put his cattle-herding skills to good use when he went to work in large research groups at laboratories.
		Brattain retired from Bell Labs in 1967, moved back to Washington, and taught at Whitman College, his alma mater.
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	The First Transistor Invented in 1947
		The first transistor was invented at Bell Laboratories on December 16, 1947 by William Shockley (seated at Brattain's laboratory bench), John Bardeen (left) and Walter Brattain (right).
		This was perhaps the most important electronics event of the 20th century, as it later made possible the integrated circuit and microprocessor that are the basis of modern electronics.
		Although video was possible with vacuum tube equipment, as was the case with the Ampex VRX-1000, without the transistor video products would never have gotten very small.
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