Bertram Brockhouse
Canadian physicist, Nobel laureate (1918–2003)
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Brockhouse was born in Lethbridge, Alberta, to a family of English descent. He was a graduate of the University of British Columbia (BA, 1947) and the University of Toronto (MA, 1948; Ph.D, 1950).
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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, he became a professor at McMaster University in Canada, where he remained until his retirement in 1984.
Brockhouse died on October 13, 2003, in Hamilton, Ontario, aged 85.
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