Walter Houser Brattain Quotes:
Ocupation: Physicist
Life: February 10, 1902 - October 13, 1987
Birthday: February 10
Death: October 13
I would like to start by emphasizing the importance of surfaces. It is at a surface where many of our most interesting and useful phenomena occur. We live for example on the surface of a planet. It is at a surface where the catalysis of chemical reactions occur. It is essentially at a surface of a plant that sunlight is converted to a sugar. In electronics, most if not all active circuit elements involve non-equilibrium phenomena occurring at surfaces. Much of biology is concerned with reactions at a surface.
source: "Physics: 1942-1962". Book by Nobel Foundation, 1964.
topic: Interesting, Example, Elements, Chemical Reactions
