Autobiography, 1959.

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Autobiography, 1959.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81675161

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.

4 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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