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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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- Gender
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- 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
- Field of work
- physics
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- Bertram Brockhouse.jpg
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- American Physical Society
- 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
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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".
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