D’après Ronald Kessler, « Absent at the Creation; How one scientist made off with the biggest invention since the light bulb », The Washington Post Magazine, (lire en ligne [archive du ], consulté le )
(en) « for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect »in Personnel de rédaction, « The Nobel Prize in Physics 1956 », Fondation Nobel, 2010. Consulté le 16 juin 2010
Susan Heller Anderson, « Walter Brattain, Inventor, Is Dead », New York Times, (lire en ligne, consulté le )
Walter H. Brattain, who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in physics for the invention of the transistor, died yesterday of Alzheimer's Disease in a nursing home in Seattle. He was 85 years old. ...
American National Biography Online, (ISBN978-0-19-860669-7, lire en ligne), « Brattain, Walter H. (1902 - 1987), Physicists, Physicists, Nobel Prize Winners »
D’après Ronald Kessler, « Absent at the Creation; How one scientist made off with the biggest invention since the light bulb », The Washington Post Magazine, (lire en ligne [archive du ], consulté le )
