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Also known as Bertram Neville Brockhouse

Canadian physicist

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Bertram Brockhouse was a Canadian physicist and university teacher specializing in nuclear physics. Born in Lethbridge in 1918, he was educated at the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto. He worked as an employee of McMaster University and Chalk River Laboratories. Brockhouse died in Hamilton in 2003.

He received the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize, and the Henry Marshall Tory Medal. He was a member of the Royal Society, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Royal Society of Canada. His doctoral student was P. K. Iyengar. Brockhouse spoke English.

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics1994

    “for the development of neutron spectroscopy”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
Canada
Place of birth
Lethbridge
Place of death
Hamilton
Languages spoken
English language
Field of work
physics
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date of birth
1918-07-15
date of death
2003-10-13
Erdős number
8
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Bertram Brockhouse
name in native language
Bertram Brockhouse
interested in
physics
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Encyclopedic overview

Bertram Neville Brockhouse, CC FRSC FRS (July 15, 1918 – October 13, 2003) was a Canadian physicist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics (1994, shared with Clifford Shull) "for pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques for studies of condensed matter", in particular "for the development of neutron spectroscopy".

Early life and education

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