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Bertram Brockhouse
Canadian physicist, Nobel laureate (1918–2003)
Bertram Neville Brockhouse, CC FRSC FRS (July 15, 1918 – October 13, 2003)[1] was a Canadianphysicist.
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".[2][3][4]
Education and early life
Brockhouse was born in Lethbridge, Alberta, to a family of English descent.[5] He was a graduate of the University of British Columbia (BA, 1947) and the University of Toronto (MA, 1948; Ph.D, 1950).[6][7]
Career and research
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,