Clifford Shull

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Clifford Shull
Clifford Shull
Clifford Shull
Born September 23, 1915
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Died March 31, 2001
Nationality American
Fields physics
Known for neutron scattering
Notable awards 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics

Clifford Glenwood Shull (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 23, 1915March 31, 2001) was a Nobel Prize-winning American physicist.

He shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics with Canadian Bertram Brockhouse for developing neutron scattering techniques, especially the neutron diffraction technique, for studying condensed matter.

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The Nobel Prize that Clifford Shull won (shared with Bertram Brockhouse) in 1994 was awarded the longest ever time after the original work the prize was based on was won.

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