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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Walter Houser Brattain (February 10, 1902-October 13, 1987) was an American physicist at Bell Labs who, along with John Bardeen and William Shockley, invented the transistor. They shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their invention. He devoted much of his life to research on surface states.He was born to Ross R. Brattain and Ottilie Houser in Amoy, China on February 10, 1902 and spent the early part of his life in Springfield, Oregon and Washington in the United States. He was raised in Washington on a cattle ranch owned by his parents, and earned his B.S. degree in physics and mathematics at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. ... Read more

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Chapters: Walter Houser Brattain, Otto Harbach, Dirk Benedict, Steve Mcconnell, Torey Hayden, William O. Douglas, Adam West, Ben Kerkvliet, Ryan Crocker, Walt Minnick, Gordon Wright, Ben Westlund, Derrike Cope, James Alger Fee, John Morrison, Anomie Belle, W. Michael Gillette, Paul Mozer, John Markoff, Jack Fearey, Lance Norris, Stephen Cohn, Vladimir Rojansky, Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger, Bernard Berelson, Marcus Amerman, Kathryn Shaw, Jack Rasmussen, Douglas Cole, Keiko Agena, David R. Nygren, Tom Smith, John Moe, Sharon Nelson, Marlin Eller, Stephen Beus, Lucile Lomen, Pat Thibaudeau, Ingrid Backstrom, Rick Stevenson, Hal Holmes, Wallace R. Brode, James L. Robart, Shane Johnson. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 186. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: William Orville Douglas (October 16, 1898 January 19, 1980) was a United States Supreme Court Associate Justice. With a term lasting 36 years and 209 days, he is the longest-serving justice in the history of the Supreme Court. In 1975, a Time article called Douglas "the most doctrinaire and committed civil libertarian ever to sit on the court." He was replaced on the Court by John Paul Stevens, and the combination of the tenure of the two justices on the Court stretched 71 years, a seat held longer by two justices than any other. Douglas was born in Maine Township, Otter Tail County, Minnesota, the son of an itinerant Scottish Presbyterian minister from Pictou County, Nova Scotia. His family moved to California, and then to Cleveland, Washington. His father died in Portland, Oregon, in 1904, when Douglas was only six years old. After moving from town to town in the West, his mother, with three young children, settled the family in Yakima, Washington. William, like the rest of the Douglas family, worked at odd jobs to earn extra money...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=365245 ... Read more

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Chapters: Presidents of Whitman College, Whitman College Alumni, Whitman College Faculty, Walter Houser Brattain, Otto Harbach, Dirk Benedict, Steve Mcconnell, Torey Hayden, Jon-Henri Damski, William O. Douglas, Adam West, Ben Kerkvliet, Ryan Crocker, Walt Minnick, Gordon Wright, Ben Westlund, Derrike Cope, James Alger Fee, John Morrison, Stephen Zunes, Anomie Belle, W. Michael Gillette, Paul Mozer, John Markoff, Sean Mann, Jules Boykoff, Jack Fearey, Lance Norris, Stephen Cohn, Vladimir Rojansky, Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger, Bernard Berelson, Whitman National Debate Institute, Marcus Amerman, Kathryn Shaw, Jack Rasmussen, Douglas Cole, Keiko Agena, David R. Nygren, Tess Gallagher, John W. Stanton, Tom Smith, David Maxwell, John Moe, Sharon Nelson, Marlin Eller, Stephen Beus, Lucile Lomen, Pat Thibaudeau, Jonathan Curiel, Josh Emmons, Sam Witt, Ingrid Backstrom, Rick Stevenson, Thomas Cronin, Gary O. Rollefson, Hal Holmes, Wallace R. Brode, Elizabeth Vandiver, James L. Robart, Robert Skotheim, Shane Johnson. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 248. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Jon-Henri Damski (31 March 1937 1 November 1997) was an American essayist, weekly columnist, poet and community activist in Chicago's gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered communities from the mid to late 1970s until the late 1990s. At the time of his death, Damski was the longest-running columnist published in the American gay and lesbian press, having written for publication every week from 8 November 1977 until 12 November 1997. Damski is also considered the first gay columnist in the American Midwest to publish under his real name and photo, starting in January, 1979, when no legal protections existed in the city of Chicago to give one recourse if fired from a job, or forced from housing, due to se...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=23633622 ... Read more

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Chapters: John Bardeen, William Shockley, Walter Houser Brattain, Zhores Alferov, Herbert Kroemer, Walter H. Schottky, Nick Holonyak, Cyril Hilsum, Claire F. Gmachl, Alan Nunn May, John D. Wiley, Daniel C. Tsui, Milton Feng, Leo Esaki, I. M. Dharmadasa, Klaus Von Klitzing, Raphael Tsu, Leigh Canham, C. Thomas Elliott, R. A. Stradling, Esther M. Conwell, Charles Kittel, Rudolf M. Tromp, John Battiscombe Gunn, Karen Kavanagh. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 112. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: John Bardeen (May 23, 1908 January 30, 1991) was an American physicist and electrical engineer, the first person to have won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon Neil Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity known as the BCS theory. The transistor revolutionized the electronics industry, allowing the Information Age to occur, and made possible the development of almost every modern electronical device, from telephones to computers to missiles. Bardeen's developments in superconductivity, which won him his second Nobel, are used in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). In 1990, John Bardeen appeared on LIFE Magazine's list of "100 Most Influential Americans of the Century." John Bardeen was born in Madison, Wisconsin on May 23, 1908. He was the second son of Dr. Charles Russell Bardeen and Althea Harmer Bardeen. He was one of five children. His father, Charles Bardeen, was Professor of Anatomy and the first Dean of the Medical School of the University of WisconsinMadison. Althea Bardeen, before marrying, had taught at the Dewey Laboratory School and run an interior decorating business; after marriage she was an active figure in the...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=15737 ... Read more

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Chapters: Douglas Hofstadter, Ken Kesey, Walter Houser Brattain, Chuck Palahniuk, Barry Lopez, Neil Goldschmidt, Victor G. Atiyeh, David Cass, Ron Terpening, Pz Myers, Daniel Wu, David Ray Griffin, Paul Simon, Huping Ling, William V. Roth, Jr., Daniel Levitin, Betty Roberts, Brad Cloepfil, William Paul Fife, Mildred Bangs Wynkoop, Ron Wigginton, Jill Hazelbaker, Elias Porter, Phil Knight, Peter Defazio, Randy Shilts, Lee Bollinger, Tom Hughes, Mark Few, Robert Slade, Carol Queen, Phil Brogan, Steve Novick, Zijad Delic, Craig Hollywood, Ben Westlund, Minoru Yasui, Greg Graham, Joseph Takahashi, James Ivory, Stephen J. Cannell, Liz Shuler, Ann Curry, Leslie M. Palm, Ivor Dent, David Mack, Edith Green, Ernest Haycox, David Ogden Stiers, Frederick Steiwer, Barrett Tillman, Steve Perry, Frank Prewitt, Monica C. Lozano, Malcolm F. Marsh, Paul Peek, Robert Polet, James Gottstein, Andy Tillman, Bryce Zabel, Phillip O. Foss, Trey Gunn, M. Qasim Jan, Verne Duncan, Douglas Warrick, Donald P. Hodel, Michael Tuckman, Don Simpson, Brian Turner, John Markoff, Betsy Eby, Sandra Good, Gordon Gilkey, Paul L. Patterson, Robert D. Holmes, Helen J. Frye, Richard Blevins, John Hugh Mcnary, Jacob Tanzer, Edwin J. Peterson, Ruth C. Engs, Franklin F. Korell, Nancy Nathanson, H. Clay Myers, Jr., Jim Weaver, Ronald Spores, Jeffrey Grayson, Charles Royer, Robert S. Bean, Oleg D. Jefimenko, Matt Centrowitz, Thomas Tongue, Maurine Brown Neuberger, Herbert B. Powell, Scott Bedbury, Lawrence T. Harris, Alfred Goodwin, A. Walter Norblad, Dinesh Gunawardena, Sergio Palleroni, Connie Mccready, Robert S. Gold, Richard Unis, Claude E. Robinson, Walter C. Winslow, Alfred E. Reames, Jefferson Smith, Rick Mather, Ann Aiken, Dan Sullivan, Thomas Hager, Major Jackson, Karen L. Gould, Harris Ellsworth, Edison Marshall, Scott Bruun, Alan Lowe, Edwin Russell Durno, Darren Kavinoky, William B. Rosson, Charles C. Pixley, Clifton N. Mcarthur, Marc Laidlaw, Robert Sylweste...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=371823 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ken Kesey, Walter Houser Brattain, Peter Defazio, Kip Kinkel, Greg Mcmackin, Richard O. Eymann, Robert W. Straub, John David Garcia, Jodi Ann Paterson, Eric Millegan, Bill Morrisette, David E. Watters, Albert Shield Walker, Lee Beyer. Excerpt:Albert Shield Walker , was the first mayor of Springfield, Oregon in 1885 and a blacksmith . In 1868, William Walker's son Albert Shields Walker married Sarah "Lizzie" Higgins and at this time the Walker household contained William, Polly, son Albert and wife Lizzie and their infant son Alva, and youngest daughter Tryphena. He was a founding member of the local chapter of Independent Order of Odd Fellows , Springfield Lodge, No. 70, organized October 24, 1881, and entitled with the position "L.S.V.G." Four years later he would become this city's mayor. He died on September 15, 1915; his obituary appeared September 16, 1915 in the Eugene Daily Guard : ALBERT WALKER, FIRST MAYOR OF SPRINGFIELD, DIES Albert Shield Walker, first mayor of Springfield upon its incorporation in 1885, and prominent in the civic and social life of Springfield, died at his home here yesterday morning after an illness of a year. He was 69 years of age and had lived in Lane Co. 62 years. In 1868 he married Miss Sarah Higgins of Salem , who survives him. There are also eight children, Herbert E., W. F., Ralph, Joy, Mrs. O. C. Woolf, of Albany , Mrs. H. F. Parsons, Jessie and Grace, of Springfield. Mr. Walker was a charter member of the Springfield Methodist Church, the Springfield lodge of Odd Follows and Eugene lodge of Woodman of The World. Interment will be made in Laurel Grove cemetery. Mr. Walker was born in southwestern Missouri January 1, 1846, and when he was six years of age his people started for Oregon by the overland trail. Returning immigrants, with tales... ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! William Bradford Shockley (February 13, 1910 ? August 12, 1989) was an American physicist and inventor. Along with John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain, Shockley co-invented the transistor, for which all three were awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics. Shockley's attempts to commercialize a new transistor design in the 1950s and 1960s led to California's "Silicon Valley" becoming a hotbed of electronics innovation. In his later life, Shockley was a professor at Stanford, and he also became a staunch advocate of eugenics. ... Read more

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A genealogical study of the present day Brattains in America. The first Brattain to arrive in America in the was John Brattain (1720-1784) who was born in Scotland and arrive in America in the 1750s and lived in present day Randolph County, North Carolina. His present day descendants live mostly in North Carolina, Indiana, Washington, Oregon, Nevada and California. The book also examines the maternal side of the Brattain genealogy by tracing the genealogy of those families who married into the Brattain especially those families who were the first families to settle in Nantucket Island in the 1660s. ... Read more