Shull wins physics Nobel for work done 40 years ago By Daniel C.
Stevenson Although 1994 will be the date recorded for Professor
Emeritus of Physics Clifford G. Shull's Nobel Prize, the records
probably won't record the campaign on his behalf that followed
the real prize-winning effort, which took place more than 40
years ago when Shull worked at the Oak Ridge National
Laboratory. Shull's most important work was done at the Oak
Ridge facility in Tennessee from 1946-51. At Oak Ridge, Shull,
79, and his colleague, the late Ernest Wollan, "systematically
investigated the fundamental principles of elastic neutron
scattering, thus providing the groundwork for this type of
research," said Robert J. Birgeneau, dean of the School of
Science. Members of the physics community have been lobbying the
Nobel committee for 10 years to award the prize to Shull. The
effort succeeded last year because Birgeneau and Institute
Professor Jerome I. Friedman, a 1990 winner in physics, were
able to convince international leaders in