Nevill F. Mott AKA Nevill Francis Mott Born: 30-Sep-1905 Birthplace: Leeds, Yorkshire, England Died: 8-Aug-1996 Location of death: Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Physicist Nationality: England Executive summary: Properties of semiconductors British physicist Nevill F. Mott devised a theory to explain how light affects photographic emulsion, and the mechanics of substances' transition from metallic to non-metallic states, and won the Nobel Prize in 1977. Father: Charles Francis Mott (physicist, b. 1877, d. 1967) Mother: Lilian Mary Reynolds Mott (physicist, b. 1879, d. 1952) Wife: Ruth Eleanor Horder (m. 1930, two daughters)
High School: Clifton College, Bristol, England (1923) University: BA, St. John's College, Cambridge University (1927) University: MA, St. John's College, Cambridge University (1930) Professor: Theoretical Physics, Bristol University (1933-) Professor: Experimental Physics, Cambridge University (1954-71) Administrator: Master, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University (1959-66)
Hughes Medal 1941 Royal Medal 1953 Knight of the British Empire 1962 Copley Medal 1972 Nobel Prize for Physics 1977 (with Philip W. Anderson and John H. van Vleck) Taylor & Francis Ltd. Past President
Member of the Board of Taylor & Francis Ltd. Past Chairman
International Union of Pure and Applied Physics President, 1951-57
Author of books:
An Outline of Wave Mechanisms (1930, physics) The Theory of the Properties of Metals and Alloys (1936, physics; with H. Jones) Electronic Processes in Ionic Crystals (1940, physics; with Ronald W Gurney) Wave Mechanics and Its Applications (1948, physics; with Ian N. Sneddon) The Theory of Atomic Collisions (1971, with Harrie Massey) Electronic Processes in Non-Crystalline Materials (1971, with Edward Arthur Davis) Elementary Quantum Mechanics (1972, physics) Metal-Insulator Transitions (1974, physics) Conduction in Non-Crystalline Materials (1986, physics) Can Scientists Believe? (1991, essays) High Yemperature Superconductors and Other Superfluids (1994, physics, with A. S. Alexandrov) A Life in Science (1995, memoir) Sir Nevill Mott: 65 Years in Physics (1995, physics; with A. S. Alexandrov)
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