Clifford G. Shull (1915-2001)

Awarded the Prize “for pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques for studies of condensed matter, for the development of neutron diffraction technique.”

American physicist. Shull was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on September 23, 1915. He was educated at the Carnegie Institute of Technology New York University, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1941. He began as a research physicist working first for the Texas Company, from 1941 to 1946, then with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory from 1946 until 1955, when he entered academic life as Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Shull died in Medford, Massachusetts on March 31, 2001.