From 1950 to 1962, Brockhouse carried out research at Atomic Energy of Canadas Chalk River Nuclear Laboratory. Here he was joined by P. K. Iyengar, who is treated as the father of Indias nuclear program.
In 1962, he became a professor at McMaster University in Canada, where he remained until his retirement in 1984.
Brockhouse died on October 13, 2003, in Hamilton, Ontario, aged 85.