The Nobel Prize in Physics 1977
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Philip Warren Anderson
Prize share: 1/3
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Sir Nevill Francis Mott
Prize share: 1/3
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive.
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
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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