The physicist Clifford Shull, who developed techniques for studying the structure of matter via neutron diffraction, was born #OTD in 1915.
Image: ORNL
Image: ORNL
Some of the papers and lab notebooks from the neutron scattering experiments performed by Clifford Shull and Ernest Wollan in the late 1940s and early 1950s, on display at @ORNL's Shull Wollan Center
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Image: ORNL
Just bombarding matter with neutrons and looking at the resulting diffraction pattern to understand how stuff is made, nbd.
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