Reminiscences of Professor Benjamin Harrison Brown, plus impromptu speeches given shortly after the announcement of the Nobel Prize to Walter Brattain and others [sound recording] / 1965 and 1956.

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Reminiscences of Professor Benjamin Harrison Brown, plus impromptu speeches given shortly after the announcement of the Nobel Prize to Walter Brattain and others [sound recording] / 1965 and 1956.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78435272

A discussion with Walter Brattain, Vladimir Rojansky, Jack Workman, Walker Bleakney, and Henrietta Baker Kennedy about their memories of Dr. Benjamin Harrison Brown who taught physics at Whitman College in the early part of the 20th century. The tape also includes the brief announcement and congratulatory speeches at Bell Laboratories when the Nobel Prize was announced in 1956.

1 sound tape reel (1.5 hrs.) : 7 1/2 ips, analog, mono. ; 7 in.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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