The Nobel Prize in Physics 1977

Philip Warren Anderson

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Prize share: 1/3

Sir Nevill Francis Mott

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Prize share: 1/3

John Hasbrouck van Vleck

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Prize share: 1/3

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1977 was awarded jointly to Philip Warren Anderson, Sir Nevill Francis Mott and John Hasbrouck van Vleck "for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems."

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