Clifford Shull
Clifford Glenwood Shull ( born September 23, 1915 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, † March 31, 2001 in Medford, Massachusetts ) was an American physicist. He was awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize.
Life
Clifford Shull was born on September 23, 1915 in Pittsburgh in Glenwood district, the third child of David H. Shull († 1934) and his wife Daisy B. Shull, he has an older brother ( Perry Leo ) and an older sister ( Evalyn May ). He studied physics from 1933 to 1937 at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh and received his PhD in 1941 at New York University. He found a job in a research laboratory of The Texas Company ( Texaco ) in Beacon, New York. After the Second World War, he went in 1946 to the Clinton Laboratory ( now Oak Ridge National Laboratory) in Tennessee. He took up a position in 1955 as a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he studied until his retirement in 1986 and taught.
Clifford Shull married in 1941 Martha - Nuel Summer and has three sons, John, Robert and William. He died on 31 March 2001 at the Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Medford, Massachusetts.
Work
Shull's role in The Texas Company was to analyze the microstructure of catalysts for the petrochemical industry by X-ray scattering and electron scattering. After his move to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, he worked with Ernest Walton (1903-1995) in the development of neutron scattering, which they perfected in the following years.
Clifford Shull in 1994 was awarded together with Bertram Brockhouse received the Nobel Prize in Physics "for their development of techniques for scattering of uncharged nuclear particles ".