MEDFORD, Mass. (AP) — Clifford G. Shull, a recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics in 1994, died Saturday following a brief illness. He was 85.
Shull's Nobel Prize, which he shared with Professor Bertram S. Brockhouse of McMaster University in Canada, was awarded for his pioneering work in neutron scattering — a technique that reveals where atoms are within a material, just as ricocheting bullets reveal where obstacles are in the dark.
The ideas in Shull's work have been used to study ceramic superconductors and the structure of viruses.