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Nevill Francis Mott
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Nevill Francis Mott

1905 – 1996 · aged 91

English physicist, Nobel prize winner

Born
30 Sept 1905 · Leeds
Died
8 Aug 1996 · Milton Keynes

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 105 years
  1. 30 Sept 1905BornBorn in Leeds
  2. 1941AwardHughes Medal
  3. 1949AwardDoctor honoris causa from the University of Grenoble
  4. 1951AwardGuthrie Lecture
  5. 1953AwardRoyal Medal
  6. 1953AwardRoyal Society Bakerian Medal
  7. 1954AwardDoctor honoris causa from the University of Paris
  8. 1954AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Poitiers
  9. 1956AwardThree Physicists Prize
  10. 1959 – 1966RoleMaster of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
  11. 1972AwardCopley Medal
  12. 1973AwardFaraday Medal
  13. 1977AwardHonorary doctorate from University of Bordeaux-I
  14. 1977AwardNobel Prize in Physics
  15. 8 Aug 1996DiedDied in Milton Keynes

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1905 – 1996).

  1. 1914 – 1918World War I
  2. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  3. 1917Balfour Declaration
  4. 1917February Revolution
  5. 1917October Revolution
  6. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  7. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  8. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  9. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  10. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  11. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  12. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  13. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  14. 1938Munich Agreement
  15. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  16. 1939 – 1945World War II
  17. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  18. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  19. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  20. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  21. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  22. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  23. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  24. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  25. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  26. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  27. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  29. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  30. 1956Suez Crisis
  31. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  32. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  33. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  35. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  36. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  37. 1968Prague Spring
  38. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  39. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  40. 19741974 FIFA World Cup

Biography

Sir Nevill Francis Mott (30 September 1905 – 8 August 1996) was a British theoretical 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 Prize was shared with Philip W. Anderson and John 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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