Born: 15-Jul-1918
Birthplace: Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Died: 13-Oct-2003
Location of death: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist

Nationality: Canada
Executive summary: Neutron scattering

Military service: Royal Canadian Navy (WWII)

Father: Israel Bertram Brockhouse
Mother: Mable Emily Neville
Sister: Alice Evelyn
Brother: Robert Paul (d. infancy)
Brother: Gordon Edgar (civil engineer)
Wife: Doris Miller (four sons, one daughter)
Son: Gordon Peter
Son: Ian Bertram
Son: James Christopher
Daughter: Alice Elizabeth
Son: Charles Leslie

    High School: King George High School
    University: BA, University of British Columbia (1947)
    University: MA, University of Toronto (1948)
    University: PhD, University of Toronto (1950)
    Professor: Physics, McMaster University (1962-84)

    Nobel Prize for Physics 1994 (with Clifford G. Shull)
    Order of Canada 1982

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