10 February - Walter Houser Brattain birth anniversary

 

Walter Houser Brattain, an American physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics, was born on 10 February 1902, in Amoy, China, and he passed away on 13 October 1987, in Seattle, Washington, USA. Brattain, along with John Bardeen and William Shockley, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 for their development of the transistor, a key component in modern electronic devices. The invention of the transistor revolutionized the field of electronics and laid the foundation for the development of integrated circuits and the semiconductor industry.