Brattain, Walter Houser, 1902-87, American physicist, b. Xiamen, China, Ph.D. Univ. of Minnesota, 1929. He was a researcher at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J. from 1929 to 1967. He then taught at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash., until he retired in 1972. Brattain, William Shockley, and John Bardeen were jointly awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their invention in the late 1940s of the transistor. The transistor replaced bulky, high-maintenance vacuum tubes in telecommunications systems and became the basic building block of modern radios, televisions, computers, and other electronic devices.

Houser may refer to:

People named Houser

• Allan Houser (1914-1994), a Native American artist
• Brad Houser (born 1960), an American musician
• Clarence Houser (1901-1994), an American field athlete
• Dan Houser, an English video game producer
• Frederick F. Houser, a California politician
• George Houser, a civil rights activist
• Hubert Houser, an Iowa politician
• Jerry Houser (born 1952), an American actor
• John Sherrill Houser (born 1935), an American sculptor and painter
• John Wesley Houser, Jr. (born 1935), an American football player
• Kevin Houser (born 1977), an American football player
• Michael Houser (1962-2002), an American musician
• Norm Houser (1915-1996), an American racecar driver
• Ralph Houser (1914-2001), an officer in the United States Marine Corps
• Sam Houser, an English computer game producer and developer
• Thane Houser (1891-1967), an American racecar driver
• Walter Houser Brattain (1902-1987), a co-inventor of the transistor
• William D. Houser (born 1921), a United States Navy officer and telecommunications executive

Other meanings of houser

• Housers, a social group
• Mad Housers, a charitable corporation