Bertram Brockhouse fonds. Second
accrual. – 1947-2003; predominant 1950-1980. – 1.8 m of textual
records and graphic material.
Series 1
Correspondence. – 1950-1972. – 16 cm of textual records. –
Title based on content of series. – Note: Correspondence originally
not in file folders; arranged by archivist.
Box 26
F.1 A, 1966-1971
Addison-Wesley
Publishing Co; Fay Ajzenberg-Selove (Haverford College); Ananth(y)(?);
Annual Review of Nuclear Science; Aremco Products, Inc.; Argonne
National Laboratory
F.2 American Physical Society (Gen
Shirane), 1971-72; encl. abstracts
F.3 Atomic Energy Canada, 1953-1970;
ts. carbon on “Power Spectrometer”
F.4 B, 1963-69
Bell
Telephone Laboratories; Bertram E. Warren Diffraction Physics Award committee;
British Movement for Freedom in Russia; Frederick C. Brown; J.S. Brown;
Brush Beryllium Co.; Noor M. Butt
F.5 C, 1962-1970
Cambridge
University Press; Conference Internationale de Magnetisme 1970; Donald
Connor; Tord Claeson; Clare Canada Ltd; Crane Piping Ltd.; Allan Crawford
Associates Ltd.
F.6 Sow-Hsui Chen, 1965-66
F.7 Crystals, correspondence about,
1962-1963, 1970
F.8 D, 1966-67
B.A.
Dasannacharya; Marcel Dekker; P.J. Dyne
F.9 E, 1963, 1969
R.J.
Elliott; Elliott Machine Tools; B.D. Evans
F.10 P.A. Egelstaff (Atomic Energy, Didcot), 1952-1969
F.11 Audrey P. Feld, 1968
F.12 G, 1966-1970
Goodfellow
Metals Ltd.; J.W. Greenwood; John Grimolay; J.R. Guadagno
F.13 H, 1965-1970
Otto
K. Harling; Harshaw Chemical Co.; John Hart; John K. Hedgecock
F.14 I, 1966
International
Atomic Energy Agency; Interprovincial Corrosion Control Co.
F.15 K, 1962-1968
Yu.
Kagan;George Kelk Ltd.; C. Kittel; W. Kley; Koch-Light Laboratories Ltd.;
Marcel Kopp; Krishnagapalan
F.16 Walter Kohn, 1966
F.17 R.D. Lowde, 1968-69
F.18 L, 1963, 1969
W.B.
Lewis; Dave Litstin (MIT); J.R. Lawson
F.19 M, 1962-1969
John
Pelleja Margalef; D.L. Martin; A.R. Mackintosh; Materials Research Corp.;
B.T.A. McKee; McGill Physical Society; Monroe Calculating Machine Co.;
Bernard Mozer; Jim Morrison
F.20 Metals Research Ltd., 1962-63
F.21 R.M. Nicklow, 1969; Nuclear Metals, Inc.,
1957
F.22 Norton Research Corp., 1968
F.23 Nuclear-Chicago Corp., 1962
F.24 O, 1969
A.W.
Overhauser, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
F.25 Ohio State University, 1962 agreement to publish
F.26 P, 1962-1970
Satya
Pal; Pergamon Press Inc.; Phoenix Publications; Plenum Publishing Corp.;
Physics in Canada
F.27 Raj Pathria, 1968
F.28 Physical Review, et al, 1950: correspondence
with regarding “On the Variation of the Superconducting Transition
Temperature with the Atomic Weight”, abstracts; see also Box 1,
F.1
F.29 S.P. Puri, 1969
F.30 G. Quittner, 1967
F.31 Radiation Instrument Development Laboratory,
Inc., 1962
F.32 Radionics Ltd., 1962
F.33 Peter Rendi, 1967
F.34 S, 1966-69
T.
Schneider; Frederick Seitz; A.W. Solbrig; Michael Stringfellow
F.35 W.B. Saunders Co., 1964-66
F.36 T, 1965-69
D.
ter Haar; Texas Nuclear Corp.; B.B. Triptahi
F.37 G. Venkataraman, 1965
F.38 W, 1959-1969
M.K.
Wilkinson; White Metal Rolling & Stamping Corp.; B.T.M. Willis; J.T.
Wilson; A.D.B. Woods; Who’s Who in the East; W. Wykeham & Co.
Ltd.
F.39 Illegible signature, written on Hotel Governor
Clinton letterhead, n.d.
F.40 Christmas and other cards.
Series 2:
Conferences and photographs. – 1955-1982. – 16 cm of textual
records and graphic material. – – These files contain a variety
of material which varies from file to file including correspondence, programmes,
papers presented, discussions, attendance lists, travel documents and
notes. Arrangement is chronological. – Title based on content of
series.
Box 27
Conferences:
F.1 American Physical Society meeting,
January 1955, ts. of address on energy levels; see Box 6, F.1 for the
programme.
F.2 Annual meeting of the American
Crystallographic Association, June 1956; ts. and ts. carbons of paper
presented on lattice and spin waves.
F.3 Brookhaven National Laboratory,
December 1956
F.4 International Conference on Current
Problems in Crystal Physics, July 1957
F.5 Sixth UK/Canada Technical Conference,
Chalk River, December 1957; minutes
F.6 Conference on Neutron Thermalization,
April 1958
F.7 American Physical Society meeting,
May 1958; for offprint see Box 8, F.8
F.8 Symposium on Inelastic Scattering
of Neutrons in Solids and Liquids, Vienna, October 1960
F.9 Neutron Physics Conference, June
1961
F.10 American Physical Society meeting, March 1962;
ts. of address
F.11 Symposium on Inelastic Scattering of Neutrons
in Solids and Liquids, September 1962
F.12 Symposium on the Utilization of Research Reactors,
November 1963; address on “Inelastic Scattering of Slow Neutrons”;
see Box 8, F.18 for offprint
F.13 Instrumentation for Neutron Inelastic Scattering
Research, Vienna, December 1969
F.14 Fiftieth Anniversary conference on the Discovery
of the Neutron, 1982; ms. and ts.
Undated:
F.15 Blume lecture V, ms.
F.16 Mol / Buckley / Aarhus lecture(s)
F.17 Notes for a lecture on “Thermodynamic
Perturbation Theory”; mimeo
Photographs:
F.18 8 b&w photographs taken at the International
Course on Theory of Condensed Matter, Trieste, 1967. See also Box 6, F.27
F.19 Chalk River: b&w photographs: 14, 1972;
20, 1976
F.20 14 undated b&w photographs stamped Atomic
Energy of Canada Ltd. (mainly equipment, only one contains a person)
F.21 1 b&w photograph stamped James H. Peacock
McMaster Audio-Visual, 1972?, of McMaster laboratory
F.22 22 b&w photographs of experimental equipment
and apparatus
F.23 1 b&w photograph of person with laboratory
equipment
F.24 Germanium Infa Red Date, [195-], 2 b&w
photographs
F.25 Photographs of graphs, 1974
F.26 Photographs of graphs, stamped Chalk River
F.27 Photographs of graphs with negatives
F.28 Negatives
Series 3:
Manuscripts, typescripts, and graphs. – 1950-1977. – 32 cm
of textual records and graphic material. – Title based on content
of series. – Files may contain abstracts, papers, notes, graphs,
correspondence, photocopies.
Box 28
Dated material, arranged chronologically:
F.1 “The Saturation Magnetization
on the Band Model”, [195-]
F.2 Notes on Shielding, [195-]
F.3 Notes and drawings on Manganese-Cobalt
Alloy, also ts. “Neutron Diffraction: Magnetic Scattering by a Mn-Co
Alloy”, 1950-1957; includes work by P. Hardy
F.4 “Temperature Dependence of
Magnetic Properties of Nickel”, 1953; includes letter from Nature
F.5 Neutron Physics Program, July 1952-December
1954
F.6 Projected experiments, 1954
F.7 “Energy Distribution of Neutrons
Scattered by Paramagnetic Media”, 1955; offprint is in Box 8, F.5
F.8 “Multiple Scattering of Slow
Neutrons by Flat Specimens and Magnetic Scattering by Zinc Ferrite”,
1955, ts. carbon; ts. and offprint are in Box 8, F.5
F.9 Notes, 1955-1962, found in untitled
binder
F.10 Epi-thermal Neutron source, 1956
F.11 “Structural Dynamics of Water by Neutron
Spectrometry”, 1957; see also offprints in Box 8, F.7-8, also a
mimeo ts. in F.7
F.12 NRU Experimental Holes, 1957
F.13 “Diffuse Magnetic Scattering of Neutrons
by an Incoherently Scattering of Mn-Co Alloy:, ca. 1957
F.14 “Normal Modes of Aluminum by Neutron
Spectrometry”, 1958; offprint is in Box 8, F.8
F.15 “Impurities in Crystal Lattices”,
1958; possibly not by Brockhouse
F.16 “Determination of the Normal Modes of
Crystals by Neutron Spectroscopy”, 1959
F.17 Lattic Vibrations – erratum, 1959
F.18 Research program, [1960]
F.19 Physics research, 1960; offprint in Box 8,
F.13
F.20 Manuscript notes from binder labelled “Intensity
Paper”; includes several different offprints up to 1962
F.21 “Spin Waves in Magnetite from Neutron
Scattering”, 1962; there is a ts. in Box 8, F.14
F.22 “Search for the Effect of Superconductivity
on the Lattice Vibrations of Lead”, ca. 1962
F.23 “Self-Correlations Function of Protons
in Water”, 1962; photocopy of ts. in Box 8, F.15
F.24 “Temperature Effects on Lattice Vibrations
in Germanium”, 1963; offprint in Box 8, F.17
F.25 “Frequency Distribution of the Lattice
Vibrations in Sodium”, 1963; offprint in Box 8, F.17
F.26 “Inelastic Scattering of Slow Neutrons”,
1964; offprint in Box 8, F.18
F.27 Publication Records of 14 October 1969; Previous
History and Plans for Research
F.28 “Temperature Variation of Phono Frequency
in Pyrolitic Graphite”, 1970
F.29 Lattice Frequency Spectra, 1970; includes
referee report and proofs; offprint in Box 9, F.13
F.30 “Crystal Dynamics of Copper-Nickel Alloys”,
ca. 1972
F.31-8 “Temperature Dependence of Phonos in Prolytic Graphite”,
1972; includes several files of graphite results, correspondence with
Gen Shirane; see also Box 10, F.7
Box 29
Undated material, arranged alphabetically:
F.1 “Anomalies”
F.2 Cadmium notes
F.3 Papers from binder labelled Crystal
Dynamics (Experimental)
F.4-5 “Dissipative Forces” notes
F.6 Melting, etc. notes from University
of Toronto colloquia
F.7 “Method of Measuring Energy
Changes in the Scattering of Slow Neutrons and Some Results”
F.8 “Neutron Diffraction Study
...”
F.9 Neutron Scattering theory, notes,
graphs, offprints found in unlabelled binder
F.10 “Neutron Spectroscopy”, article
for encyclopedia, possibly related to Box 10, F.5
F.11 “Principles of Experimental Design”
F.12 “Time of Flight”
F.13 Typescripts (various) lacking their title
pages
Non-Scientific Work:
F.14 Writings on Ethics and God, 1977, photocopies
Graphs:
F.15-24 Various graphs, a few dated, [195-]-1967, with experimental results
F.25 Computer prints with experimental results
Series 4:
Offprints, works by others, blueprints. – 1947-1967. – 48
cm of textual records and graphic material. – Title based on content
of series.
Box 30
Offprints by Brockhouse:
F.1 The Chalk River papers
F.2 Crystal Dymics of Copper, 1967,
annotated by A. Larose
F.3 “Dispersion Relation for
Spin Waves in a fcc Cobalt Alloy”, 1966; attached notes on Dispersion
Relations
F.4 Image of the Fermi Surface in the
Lattice Vibrations of Lead, 1961
F.5 “Scattering of Neutrons by
Phonons in an Aluminum Single Crystal”, 1955; with graphs, from
binder labelled “Alum. Powder”
Work by others (manuscripts, typescripts, graphs, correspondence):
F.6 Notes by or about Gordon Baym,
Illinois
F.7 L.N. Becka, “Neutron Inelastic
Scattering of Globular Compounds”
F.8 B.A. Dasannacharya and K.R. Rao,
“Neutron Scattering from Liquid Argon”
F.9 A.J.E. Foreman, “Scattering
of Optical Phonos by Dislocation Strain Field”
F.10 G.G. E. Low, “Time-of-flight Focussing
in Neutron Spectrometry”
F.11 M.L. Shepard and J.F. Smith, “Single
Crystalline Elastic Constants of Lead-Thallium Alloys”
F.12 R.H. Tuxworth and W.M. Barrss, Uranium Texture
Analysis, 1957
Offprints by others, arranged alphabetically by author:
F.13 A-B
F.14 C
F.15 D
F.16 E
F.17 F
F.18-9 G
F.20 H-I
F.21 J
Box 31
F.1-2 K
F.3 L-Mar
F.4 Mc-
F.5 N
F.6 O-P
F.7 R
F.8 S
F.9 T
F.10 U-V
F.11 W-Woj
Box 32
F.1 W-Z
Offprints, by topic:
F.2 Crystal dynamics (theory)
F.3 Liquids, no. 1
F.4 Liquids, no. 2
F.5 Magnetic scattering / magnetic
structuring
F.6 Neutron experimental methods
F.7 Neutron scattering theory –
general
F.8 Publication lists
Blue-prints:
F.9 Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. Chalk
River, floor plan, 1955
F.10 Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. Chalk River,
twin-axis spectrometer, 1956
F.11-3 Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. Chalk River, neutron spectrometer,
1960
F.14 Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. Chalk River,
filters, equipment holes, etc., 1960-63
F.15 Monitors stations, 1963, not stamped Chalk
River
F.16 National Research Council Chalk River, NRX
project, 1947
Series 5:
Teaching and administration, Nobel prize, personal documents. –
1950-2003. – 12.5 cm of textual records. – Title based on
content of series.
Box 33
F.1 McMaster research accounts, 1962-1971
F.2 Ontario Universities, Physics Departments
chairs, 1968
F.3 Faculty of Science circulars
F.4 Physics Department printed catalogues
F.5 Physics Department examinations,
course outlines, 1963, 1983-4
F.6 Brockhouse’s notebook for
Physics V
F.7 Brockhouse’s notebook for
Physics 754
F.8 Brockhouse’s notebook for
Physics 733
F.9 Science 2J3E examinations and tests,
1983
F.10 Nobel Prize nomination, 1980
F.11 Nobel Prize speaking engagements; see also
Box 24
F.12 Nobel Prize news clippings; also one news
clipping re park, 1997; see also Box 22
F.13 Nobel Prize nomination, 1994
F.14 1950 Ph.D. defence notice
F.15 Symposium in honour of Brockhouse, 1995; see
also Box 25
F.16 Memorial service programe, 2003
Series 6:
Graduate students. – 1963-1974. – 64 cm of textual records
and graphic material. – Title based on content of series.
Boxes 34-37
Files concerning the work of Brockhouse’s graduate students, mainly
Andre Larose. There is also one file (Box 34) for A.K. Pant and one laboratory
book kept by Abou-Helal Hassan (Box 34).
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