Walter Houser Brattain
Also known as Walter Brattain
American physicist (1902–1987)
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Walter Houser Brattain was an American physicist who lived from 1902 to 1987 and made important contributions to the field of solid-state physics. Though the context provided doesn't specify his particular achievements, his work during this era was significant enough to establish him as a notable figure in twentieth-century physics.
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- The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields
· 1983 · cited 30,371x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,368x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,328x
- The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease
· 2011 · cited 13,248x
- A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity
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Walter Houser Brattain (/ˈbrætn/ BRAT-n; February 10, 1902 – October 13, 1987) was an American physicist who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Bardeen and William Shockley for their invention of the point-contact transistor. Brattain devoted much of his life to research on surface states.
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