Bertram Brockhouse

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
Occupation: nuclear physicist
Educated at: University of British Columbia
Employer: Chalk River Laboratories
Languages spoken: English language
Award: Dennis Gabor Medal and Prize
Field of work: physics
Image: Bertram Brockhouse.jpg

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member of: American Physical Society
date of birth: 1918-07-15
date of death: 2003-10-13
Erdős number: 8
Commons category: 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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