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Celebrating with a new Nobel laureate in Canada’s ‘Steeltown’

03 Oct 2024 Hamish Johnston

Ahead of the 2024 Nobel Prize for Physics, Physics World editors recall amusing brushes with Nobel laureates past and present. Hamish Johnston recalls the joy and celebrations  after Bertram Brockhouse bagged his prize in 1994

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Steeltown hero Bertram Brockhouse shared the 1994 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on inelastic neutron scattering. (Courtesy: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives/WF Meggers Gallery of Nobel Laureates)
For nearly two decades I have been covering the Nobel prize for Physics World and every October I tu

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