Brattain, Walter H. (Walter Houser), 1902-1987.
Walter Brattain autobiography, 1959.
The autobiography covers Brattain's ancestry, family life, education--secondary and college and his professional career. Brattain discusses his chief field (surface properties of solids) and chief contributions (photo effect on free surface of semiconductor); the invention of point contact transistor (with John Bardeen); work on surface properties of germanium; honors and awards, including Nobel Prize in Physics awarded in 1956 (with Bardeen and Shockley); memberships; extra-academic activities; and his marriage.
Brattain, Walter H. (Walter Houser), 1902-1987
Shockley, William, 1910- -- Awards.
Germanium -- Surfaces -- Research.
Nobel Prizes.
Physicists -- Biography.
Science.
Semiconductors.
Solids -- Surfaces.
Transistors.
Autobiographies. aat aat
Physicists. aat
Bardeen, John.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA