Sir nevill f mott biography

Sir Nevill Francis Mott (30 September 1905 – 8 August 1996) was a British physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1977 for his work on the.

Sir Nevill Francis Mott 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.

Nevill Francis Mott was born in Leeds, U.K., on September 30th, 1905.

Sir Nevill Francis Mott, The Nobel Prize in Physics 1977.

Sir Nevill F. Mott was an English physicist who shared (with P.W. Anderson and J.H. Van Vleck of the United States) the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1977 for.

Nevill Francis Mott was born in Leeds, U.K., on September 30th, 1905..

Mott, Sir Nevill Francis, 1905-1996 (Knight, physicist)

Biography

Sir Nevill Francis Mott (1905-1996), theoretical physicist.

Nevill Francis Mott was born in Leeds on 30 September 1905. His father, Charles Francis Mott, who later became Director of Education of Liverpool, and his mother, Lillian Mary Mott née Reynolds, had been research students together under J.J.

Thomson at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.

Born 30 September 1905, died 8 August 1996.

Mott was educated at Clifton College, Bristol and St John's College, Cambridge where he studied mathematics and theoretical physics. After three years research in applied mathematics he was appointed to a lectureship at Manchester University in 1929.

He returned to Cambridge in 1930 as a Fellow and lecturer of Gonville and Caius College and in 1933 moved to Bristol University as Melville Wills Professor in Theoretical Physics. In 1948 he became Henry Overton Wills Professor of Physics and Director of the Henry Herbert Wills Physical Laboratory a