Nevill mott biography definition
For the whole of a working life of over sixty years, Mott was the unquestioned leader of English condensed-matter physicists....
Nevill Mott
English physicist, Nobel prize winner
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 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.
English physicist, Nobel prize winner.
Mott and Anderson clarified the reasons why magnetic or amorphous materials can sometimes be metallic and sometimes insulating.[1][2][3][4][5]
Education and early life
Mott was born in Leeds to Charles Francis Mott and Lilian Mary Reynolds, a granddaughter of Sir John Richardson, and great granddaughter of Sir John Henry Pelly, 1st Baronet.
Miss Reynolds was a Cambridge Mathematics Tripos graduate and at Cambridge was the best woman mathematician of her year. His parents met in the Cavendish Laboratory, when both were engag