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Walter Houser Brattain (1902–1987) was an American physicist and co-inventor of the transistor, a crucial development in modern electronics. He was born in Amoy, China, to American missionary parents and later returned to the United States, where he pursued higher education in electrical engineering and physics. Brattain worked at Bell Laboratories, where he collaborated with John Bardeen and William Shockley.