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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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Shockley, Bardeen, and Brattain won Nobel Prizes in physics in 1956.
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Three Americans, William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Houser Brattain received the Nobel Prize in 1956 for their discovery of the transistor effect.
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Brattain, and John Bardeen, all of Bell Telephone Laboratories, for their discovery of the transistor effect in semiconductors and the development of the transistor.
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John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley, and many other Bell Labs scientists resumed full-time semiconductor research.
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The open high school section produced the only clear winner, Mika Brattain of Lexington, 4-0.
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WHEN John Bardeen and Walter Brattain produced their first transistor in December 1947, it was almost certainly a light emitter but at such a low level as to be undetectable.
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