Clifford Shull
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| Clifford Shull | |
Clifford Shull
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| Born | September 23, 1915 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
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| Died | March 31, 2001 |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | physics |
| Known for | neutron scattering |
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Clifford Glenwood Shull (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 23, 1915 – March 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.

