Walter Brattain
- Born: February 10, 1902 (Amoy, China)
- Died: October 13, 1987 (Summit, New Jersey)
Education
- 1924: BS, Whitman College
- 1929: PhD, University of Minnesota (Physics)
Major Positions
- 1928–1929: National Bureau of Standards, Assistant Physicist, Radio Division
- 1929–1967: Bell Laboratories, Research Physicist
- 1967–1972: Whitman College, Visiting Professor of Physics
Other Positions
- 1941–1943: Columbia University, Physicist, Division of War Research
- 1952–1952: Harvard University, Visiting Lecturer
Selected Part-Time Positions
- 1957–1969: Chair, Commission on Semiconductors, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics
- 1962–1965: Member, Defense Science Board, United States Department of Defense
- 1960–1966: Member, Naval Research Advisory Committee, United States Navy
- 1966–1968: Member, Advisory Board, Naval Ordnance Test Station, United States Navy
- 1968–1974: Consultant, Pacific Northwest Laboratories, Battelle Memorial Institute
Selected Awards and Honors
Archival Resources
Whitman College and Northwest Archives, Walla Walla, Washington
Online Finding Aid
Oral History Interviews
- 1964: Available Online
- 1974: Available Online
Resources on the Web
Published Resources
John Bardeen, "Walter Houser Brattain: 1902-1987", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences
Michael O'Riordan and Lillian Hoddeson, Crystal Fire: The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1997)
