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2 unusual facts about Bertram Brockhouse


Bertram Brockhouse

Here he was joined by P. K. Iyengar, who is treated as the father of India's nuclear program.

McMaster Faculty of Science

Many discoveries have been made at McMaster University such as the development of neutron spectroscopy by Bertram Brockhouse which earned him a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1994.


Atomic Energy of Canada Limited

Throughout the 1950s the NRX was used by many researchers in the pioneering fields of neutron condensed matter physics, including Dr. Bertram Brockhouse, who shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in developing the neutron scattering techniques.

Neutron diffraction

(The other half of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Physics went to Bert Brockhouse for development of the inelastic scattering technique at the Chalk River facility of AECL. This also involved the invention of the triple axis spectrometer).


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