RE: Clifford G. Shull, Nobel Winner in Physics, Dies at 85

["Frame, Paul" <FrameP@ORAU.GOV>]

>Together with the late Dr. Ernest O. Wollan, Dr. Shull realized

>that the stream of neutrons ejected from the laboratory's nuclear

>reactors could be tapped for experiments.



It is worth noting that Wollan was the first person to use the title "Health

Physicist" -

he headed up the radiation protection program at the University of Chicago

during the Manhattan Project.

The Nobel prize wasn't awarded until some 45 years after Wollan and Shull

completed their work on neutron diffraction. The reason for the delay in

awarding the prize seems to have been that the work was done at a reactor

and this gave it a politically incorrect association with nuclear power. Had

that not been the case, the first health physicist would have lived to

receive the Nobel Prize.



Paul Frame

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