The Washington Post, October 14th, 1987
Walter H. Brattain, 85, a coinventor of the transistor and who was one of three scientists named cowinners of the 1956 Nobel Prize in physics, died Oct. 13 at a nursing home in Seattle. He had Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Brattain shared his prize with John Bardeen and William Shockley. All three had been research scientists at Bell Telephone Laboratories at Murray Hill, N.J., where they did their research in semiconductors and, in 1948, discovered the "transistor effect" and for inventing the transistor itself. The transistor, a tiny, inexpensive substitute for the radio vacuum tube. Both devices...
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