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A personal biography of Bertram N. Brockhouse, a Canadian physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1994 for his contributions to the study of superfluidity and superconductivity. Learn about his early life, education, career, family, and achievements in physics.

Bertram N. Brockhouse was a Canadian physicist who developed methods for using neutron spectroscopy to study different materials and molecules. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics 1994 with Clifford G. Shull for this work, which was motivated by the need to understand the structure and properties of materials.

Bertram N. Brockhouse, (born July 15, 1918, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada—died October 13, 2003, Hamilton, Ontario), Canadian physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1994 with American physicist Clifford G. Shull for their separate but concurrent development of neutron-scattering techniques.

Bertram N. Brockhouse is a Canadian physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1994 for his contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques for studies of condensed matter. He was also a professor of physics at McMaster University and a member of various scientific societies and academies.

Bertram N. Brockhouse was a Canadian physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1994 for his contributions to the study of neutron scattering by materials. He worked at the Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) and the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) from 1950 to 1953, and at the Brookhaven National Laboratory from 1953 to 1955. He studied the resonant and inelastic scattering of neutrons by ferromagnetic materials, such as cadmium, samarium, and iron.

Bertram Brockhouse, who shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics for his brilliant, pioneering work which laid the foundation for the field of inelastic neutron scattering, died on 13 October 2003 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Bert, as he was known to his colleagues and friends, was born in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada on 15 July 1918.

Brockhouse — who shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics with Clifford Shull — died on 13 October 2003. In the 50 years since Brockhouse's invention, neutron spectroscopy has become a standard...