Bertram Brockhouse

Bertram Brockhouse

Born	Bertram Neville Brockhouse (1918-07-15)July 15, 1918 Lethbridge, Alberta
Died	October 13, 2003(2003-10-13) (aged 85) Hamilton, Ontario
Nationality	Canadian
Institutions	McMaster University
Alma mater	University of British Columbia (BA) University of Toronto (PhD)
Thesis	The effect of stress and temperature upon the magnetic properties of ferromagnetic materials (1950)
Notable awards	Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1962) Duddell Medal and Prize (1963) FRS (1965) Henry Marshall Tory Medal (1973) Nobel Prize in Physics (1994)
Website www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1994/brockhouse-bio.html

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".

Brockhouse was born in Lethbridge, Alberta, and was a graduate of the University of British Columbia (BA, 1947) and the University of Toronto (MA, 1948; Ph.D, 1950).

From 1950 to 1962, Brockhouse carried out research at Atomic Energy of Canada's Chalk River Nuclear Laboratory. Here he was joined by P. K. Iyengar, who is treated as the father of India's nuclear program.

In 1962, he became professor at McMaster University in Canada, where he remained until his retirement in 1984.

Brockhouse was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1965. In 1982, Brockhouse was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 1995.