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Bertram Brockhouse

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Bertram Brockhouse 1918-2003, Canadian physicist, b. Lethbridge, Alta. Educated at the Univ. of British Columbia and Univ. of Toronto (Ph.D., 1950), he was a research officer (1950-59) and head of the neutron physics branch (1960-62) at the Chalk River Laboratory (now Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.), and taught at McMaster Univ. (1962-84). While at Chalk River he studied the scattering of slow neutrons by highly absorbing elements such as cadmium. He also performed the first experiments that probed condensed matter using the inelastic scattering of neutrons. His pioneering work in slow neutron... Read more

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...pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques for studies of condensed matter, Canadian Bertram N. Brockhouse for the development of neutron spectroscopy, and Clifford G. Shull for the development of the neutron diffraction... Read more

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	Clifford G. Shull ; ...in 1994, died Saturday after a brief illness. He was 85. Shull's Nobel Prize, which he shared with Professor Bertram S. Brockhouse of McMaster University in Canada, was awarded for pioneering work in neutron scattering -- a technique that reveals... Read more

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