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Clifford G. Shull
(23 Sep 1915 - 21 Mar 2001)
American physicist who shared the 1994 Nobel Prize for Physics (with Canadian physicist Bertram N. Brockhouse) for “pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques for studies of condensed matter.”
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Science Quotes by Clifford G. Shull (1 quote)
Over the last century, physicists have used light quanta, electrons, alpha particles, X-rays, gamma-rays, protons, neutrons and exotic sub-nuclear particles for this purpose [scattering experiments]. Much important information about the target atoms or nuclei or their assemblage has been obtained in this way. In witness of this importance one can point to the unusual concentration of scattering enthusiasts among earlier Nobel Laureate physicists. One could say that physicists just love to perform or interpret scattering experiments.
— Clifford G. Shull
Nobel Banquet Speech (10 Dec 1994), in Tore Frängsmyr (ed.), Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes 1994 (1995).
See also:
- 23 Sep - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Shull's birth.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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