Clifford Shull
American physicist (1915–2001)
- Fame53.3
- Momentum0.0
- United States rank#121
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- Fame53.3
- Momentum0.0
- United States rank#121
- Scientists rank#119
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Lived 1915–2001, aged 86United States
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Updated 2026-06-09
A physicist whose work was foundational enough to earn a Nobel Prize, yet whose public profile remains remarkably thin — the attention comes mostly from those who know what neutron scattering unlocked.
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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.
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