# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-09-07T21:00:04.310Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Clifford Glenwood Shull was born September 23, 1915, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He built a career as an American physicist through the middle decades of the twentieth century. The arc of his work stretched across institutions and decades, though the details of his pivotal contributions live mostly in specialized memory. He died March 31, 2001, eighty-five years after he started.