Shull, Clifford G.

Shull, Clifford G.

▪ American physicist
in full  Clifford Glenwood Shull  
born September 23, 1915, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
died March 31, 2001, Medford, Massachusetts

      American physicist who was corecipient of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Physics for his development of neutron- scattering techniques—in particular, neutron diffraction, a process that enabled scientists to better explore the atomic structure of matter. He shared the prize with Canadian physicist Bertram N. Brockhouse (Brockhouse, Bertram N.), who conducted separate but concurrent work in the field.

      Shull was educated at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (B.S., 1937) and New York University (Ph.D., 1941) and began a career as a research physicist. His award-winning work was completed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratories in Tennessee from 1946 to 1955, under the leadership of Ernest O. Wollan, the pioneer of neutron-scattering research. In the technique of neutron diffraction, a beam of single-wavelength neutrons is passed through the material under study. Neutrons hitting atoms of the target material are scattered into a pattern that, when recorded on photographic film, yields information about the relative positions of atoms in the material. Shull was also one of the first to demonstrate magnetic diffraction, and he helped to develop instrumentation for the routine crystallographic analysis of neutrons. From 1955 until his retirement in 1986 he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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