Thursday, May 28, 2015

Walter Houser Brattain



Another of my occasional posts on famous (distant) relatives. Walter Houser Brattain won the Noble Prize in Physics in 1956 for his work on transistors.

Walter Brattain would be my fourth cousin, three times removed. His 3xgreat-grandfather, Robert Brattain, was my 6xgreat-grandfather. Robert's great-great-great granddaughter, Sarah Brattain, married into the Dean line. She was the wife of David Philip Dean.

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