Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2003)
Bertram Brockhouse
Bertram Neville Brockhouse, was a Canadian physicist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques for studies of condensed matter", in particular "for the development of neutron spectroscopy".
Nobel Prize in Physics
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