Bertram Brockhouse

Bertram Brockhouse (1918–2003) was a Canadian physicist and university teacher. He was born in Lethbridge and died in Hamilton. Brockhouse received his education from the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto. His professional career included positions at McMaster University and Chalk River Laboratories. He was a doctoral supervisor to P. K. Iyengar.

Brockhouse was a member of the Royal Society, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Royal Society of Canada. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize, the Henry Marshall Tory Medal, and the title of Fellow of the Royal Society. His published works include "The effect of stress and temperature upon the amgnetic properties of ferromagnetic materials" and "Magnetic properties of ferromagnetic materials at low temperatures."