Sir Nevill Mott | |
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| Born | Nevill Francis Mott 30 September 1905 Leeds, England |
| Died | 8 August 1996 (aged 90) Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
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| Fields | Physics |
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| Doctoral advisor | R.H. Fowler |
Sir Nevill Francis Mott CH FRS (30 September 1905 – 8 August 1996) was a British physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1977 for his work on the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems, especially amorphous semiconductors. The award was shared with Philip W. Anderson and J. H. Van Vleck. The three had conducted loosely related research. Mott and Anderson clarified the reasons why magnetic or amorphous materials can sometimes be metallic and sometimes insulating.[1][2][3][4][5]
- ^ BBC video of Mott interviewed by Lewis Wolpert in 1985 (accessed 8 October 2010)
- ^ * Nevill Francis Mott on Nobelprize.org including the Nobel Lecture, 8 December 1977 Electrons in Glass
- ^ Sir Nevill Francis Mott
- ^ Mott's memories University of Bristol (accessed Jan 2006)
- ^ National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists Archived 31 January 2006 at the Wayback Machine Bath University
