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Clifford Shull and J. Samuel Smart used neutron diffraction to detect antiferromagnetism. Oppositely oriented magnetic sublattices can have no net bulk magnetization, yet their spatial order produces a distinct scattering pattern because neutrons interact with magnetic moments. The experiment therefore probes internal magnetic arrangement, not just the total magnetic moment of a sample. It established neutron scattering as a way to reveal ordered magnetism that bulk magnetic measurements can conceal.[ref]
Detection of Antiferromagnetism by Neutron Diffraction by Clifford Glenwood Shull and J. Samuel Smart. Physical Review 76, 1256–1257 (1949), magnetic diffraction from opposing sublattices
A physicist who developed neutron scattering experiments and became a professor of physics at MIT.[ref]
Clifford Glenwood Shull 1915–2001. Independent professional research and appointment; see profile text
Portrait of Clifford Shull
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