Nobel Prize

Nevill Francis Mott was born in Leeds, U.K., on September 30th, 1905. His parents, Charles Francis Mott and Lilian Mary (née) Reynolds, met when working under in the Cavendish Laboratory; his great grandfather was Sir John Richardson, the arctic explorer. He was educated at Clifton College, Bristol and St. John’s College, Cambridge, where he studied…

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11 October 1977 has decided to award the 1977 Nobel Prize for physics to be shared equally between Dr Philip W. Anderson, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA, Professor Sir Nevill F. Mott, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England and Professor John H. Van Vleck, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, for their fundamental theoretical investigations…

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I was born in Middletown, Connecticut, March 13, 1899 where my father and grandfather were respectively professors of mathematics and of astronomy at Wesleyan University. However, when I was seven years old father accepted a professorship at the University of Wisconsin, so I grew up in Madison, Wisconsin, where I attended the public schools, and…

Presentation Speech by Professor Per-Olov Löwdin of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel Prize in physics is shared equally between Philip Anderson, Sir Nevill Mott and John Van Vleck for their fundamental contributions to the theory of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered…