The Nobel Prize in Physics 1977
Awarded on: 1977-10-11
"for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems"
Affiliations:
- University of Cambridge – Cambridge, United Kingdom
Sir Nevill Francis Mott
Born: 1905-09-30 in Leeds, United Kingdom
Gender: male
Field: British theoretical physicist (1905–1996)
Biography
Sir Nevill Francis Mott 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.