WALTER BRATTAIN, 85
WON NOBEL PRIZE FOR PHYSICS
Author: Associated Press
Date: Wednesday, October 14, 1987
Page: 27
Section: OBITUARY
SEATTLE -- Walter H. Brattain, who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in physics
for discovering the transistor, died yesterday in a nursing home of
Alzheimer's disease. He was 85.
Mr. Brattain, John Bardeen and William Shockley, all research scientists
at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., shared the physics prize
for their research in semiconductors and the discovery of the transistor
effect in 1947.
The men's research gave birth to modern electronics, revolutionizing
technologies in space exploration, satellite communications and computers. It
led to the transistor radio and improved televisions and telephone service.
Mr. Brattain was raised and educated in Washington state and received a
bachelor's degree from Whitman College in Walla Walla in 1924.
He served as a visiting lecturer at Harvard University and at the
universities of Minnesota and Washington.
He was a visiting lecturer and professor at Whitman from 1962 to 1972 and
later served as a consultant there.
Mr. Brattain was elected to the National Inventors' Hall of Fame.
His funeral will be in Pomeroy, Wash., at a later date.
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