Nobel Prize Recipient, Physicist. He received world-wide acclaim as an American physicist, who earned the 1994 Nobel Prize for Physics. He shared the award with Canadian physicist Bertram Brockhouse. He received his award "for the development of the neutron diffraction technique" and "for pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques for studies of condensed matter." He received a Bachelors of Science degree from Carnegie Institute of Technology, a private research college, and a PhD from New York University. During World War II, he held a position at The Texas Company, which later became Texaco Oil, in Beacon, New York. He was considered for the Manhattan Project but his projects with oil were more important according to the government. This followed with a position in the Clinton Laboratory, which is now Oak Ridge National Laboratories, specializing in nuclear research. He started at Clinton Laboratory with his pioneer work, which led to the Nobel Prize. His colleague in this project was Ernest Omar Wollan, who died in 1980. Since Wollan was deceased at the time of the nominations for the 1994 Nobel Prize, he was not eligible for the award, which was being awarded for research done nearly 50 years earlier by the two scientists. Wanting Wollan to receive recognition, his accomplishments were mentioned in Shull's Nobel Prize acceptance speech. Oak Ridge National Laboratories offers the "Clifford G. Shull Fellowship Program" to promising Postdoctoral candidates. Finally in 1955, he held a position as a professor and respected researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology until he retired in 1986. At MIT he established a neutron diffraction program. Besides the Nobel Prize, he was awarded the Oliver E. Buckley Prize from the American Physical Society and elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1956, elected to the National Academy of Science in 1975, recipient of the Humboldt Senior Scientist Award in 1980, along with the Gregorio Arninoff Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Science in 1993. The "Shull Rocks" in Antarctica were named in his honor.