Nevill Francis Mott
(1905-1996)
English physicist, Nobel prize winner
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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.
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30 September 1905 Leeds, England
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8 August 1996 (aged 90) Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England
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