Bertram Brockhouse

Bertram Brockhouse
Bertram Brockhouse
Born	Bertram Neville Brockhouse; July 15, 1918; Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Died	October 13, 2003 (aged 85); Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Nationality	Canadian
Alma mater	University of British Columbia (BA, 1947); University of Toronto; (MA, 1948; PhD, 1950);
Known for	Neutron triple-axis spectrometry
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);
	Scientific career
Institutions	McMaster University
Thesis	The effect of stress and temperature upon the magnetic properties of ferromagnetic materials (1950)
Doctoral advisor	James Reekie
Doctoral students	Sow-Hsin Chen
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".

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