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Walter Brattain

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Profession
Physicist
Died
Oct 13, 1987
Zodiac
Aquarius
Born in
China
About
American physicist who co-invented, with John Bardeen and William Shockley, the transistor, a device used to amplify and switch electronic signals and electrical power. He won a Nobel Prize for his invention in 1956.
Family
His first wife was Dr. Keren Gilmore; after her death he married Emma Jane Kirsch in 1958.

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