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- ↑ "APS Fellow Archive". American Physical Society. (search on year 1941 and institution RCA Manufacturing Company)
- Obituary, Proceedings of the IRE, February 1945
- Browder J. Thompson Memorial
- Browder J. Thompson's RCA diary