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Clifford Shull

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Clifford Shull
Clifford Shull (right), with Ernest Wollan, working with a double-crystal neutron spectrometer at the ORNL X-10 graphite reactor in 1949
Born(1915-09-23)September 23, 1915
DiedMarch 31, 2001(2001-03-31) (aged 85)
NationalityUnited States
Alma materCarnegie Institute of Technology
New York University
Known forNeutron scattering
AwardsOliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1956)
Gregori Aminoff Prize (1993)
Nobel Prize in Physics (1994)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
Doctoral advisorRichard T. Cox

Clifford Glenwood Shull (September 23, 1915 – March 31, 2001) was an American physicist. He won the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics with Bertram Brickhouse.

Shull's awards include the Buckley Prize, which he received from the American Physical Society in 1956, and election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1956) and to the National Academy of Sciences (1975).

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