The medal is called the Brockhouse Medal and is awarded to recognize and encourage outstanding experimental or theoretical contributions to condensed matter and materials physics.

Bertram N. Brockhouse was a Canadian physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1994 with American physicist Clifford G. Shull for their separate but concurrent development of …

My father, Israel Bertram Brockhouse, had homesteaded with other members of his family in 1910. He had spent his years to that time in the United States after being brought to this …

In 1962 Brockhouse took up the position of Professor of Physics at McMaster University where he remained until his retirement in 1984. He was chairman of the Department from 1967 to 1970.

The 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Bertram Brockhouse (Canada) and Clifford Shull (USA) who pioneered the use of neutron beams to probe materials. The prize …

Aug 13, 2025 · Brockhouse passed away on Oct. 13, 2003, nine years and one day after he pushed play on his answering machine at home and learned he was being awarded the Nobel …

Brockhouse believed that the most important thing a person could learn and apply in one's career is discrimination, in the sense that one must learn to tune out the bad stuff and focus on the …