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Nature 426, 617 (11 December 2003) | doi:10.1038/426617a

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Obituary: Bertram N. Brockhouse (1918–2003)

Tom Timusk1

Advances in science often start with abstract and difficult ideas — Mendel's gene or Dalton's atom come to mind. Only much later, through defining experiments, do they become such concrete objects that one wonders what all the fuss was about.

  1. Tom Timusk is in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4M1, Canada.
    Email: timusk@mcmaster.ca