Other recognition USS Brattain, Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Night Terrors" References External links Walter Brattain family papers at the Whitman College and Northwest Archives, Whitman College. Oral history interview transcript with Walter Brattain on June 1964, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives - Session I Oral history interview transcript with Walter Brattain on 28 May 1974, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives - Session II including the Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1956 Surface Properties of Semiconductors 1902 births 1987 deaths 20th-century American physicists 20th-century American inventors American Nobel laureates Experimental physicists Nobel laureates in Physics People from Springfield, Oregon People from Summit, New Jersey Quantum physicists Scientists at Bell Labs Semiconductor physicists Whitman College alumni University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering alumni University of Oregon alumni Deaths from Alzheimer's disease Neurological disease deaths in Washington (state) People from Xiamen American expatriates in China