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Clifford Shull

1915 - 2001

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Clifford Glenwood Shull (September 23, 1915 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – March 31, 2001) was an American physicist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Clifford Shull is the 147th most popular physicist (up from 217th in 2019), the 484th most popular biography from United States (up from 851st in 2019) and the 23rd most popular American Physicist.

Clifford Shull is most famous for his work in the field of nuclear magnetic resonance. He is credited with being the first to use nuclear magnetic resonance to study the molecular structure of materials.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Clifford Shull ranks 147 out of 851. Before him are Pavel Cherenkov, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron, Roger Penrose, Louis Néel, Rudolf Mössbauer, and Kai Siegbahn. After him are John Bardeen, Nicolaas Bloembergen, George Paget Thomson, Walter Houser Brattain, Henry Moseley, and Laura Bassi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Clifford Shull ranks 19. Before him are Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., W. Arthur Lewis, Eli Wallach, David Rockefeller, Yitzhak Shamir, and Paul Samuelson. After him are Billie Holiday, Hu Yaobang, Sviatoslav Richter, John Vorster, Saul Bellow, and Aung San. Among people deceased in 2001, Clifford Shull ranks 11. Before him are Didi, Josef Bican, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Don Bradman, Jack Lemmon, and Léopold Sédar Senghor. After him are Jorge Amado, G. E. M. Anscombe, Christiaan Barnard, Sabiha Gökçen, Bill Hewlett, and Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Clifford Shull ranks 484 out of 20,380. Before him are Julia Roberts (1967), Edith Wilson (1872), Thomas Midgley Jr. (1889), Sidney Poitier (1927), Paul Samuelson (1915), and J. J. Cale (1938). After him are John Bardeen (1908), Susan Sontag (1933), Chuck Berry (1926), Bob Kahn (1938), Stevie Wonder (1950), and Faye Dunaway (1941).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Clifford Shull ranks 23. Before him are Owen Chamberlain (1920), Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921), Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839), Arthur Compton (1892), James Rainwater (1917), and Robert Coleman Richardson (1937). After him are John Bardeen (1908), Joseph Henry (1797), George E. Smith (1930), Leon Cooper (1930), Martin Lewis Perl (1927), and Arthur Leonard Schawlow (1921).

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