Correspondent's Report

Abstract

Neutron scattering at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory dates back to 1945 when Ernest Wollan installed a modified x-ray diffractometer on a beam port of the original graphite reactor. Subsequently, Wollan and Clifford Shull pioneered neutron diffraction and laid the foundation for an active neutron scattering effort that continued through the 1950s, using the Oak Ridge Research reactor after 1958, and, starting in 1966, the High Flux Isotope Reactor, or HFIR [1].

Notes

1. Some information is drawn from the report “The Solid State Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory: A Brief History 1952–1995” by M. Wilkinson, and from the ORNL Review, volume 25 (2002) and volume 36 (2003).