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:
- Harvard University – Cambridge, MA, USA
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
Born: 1899-03-13 in Middletown, CT, USA
Gender: male
Field: American physicist and mathematician
Biography
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck was an American physicist and mathematician. He was co-awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977, for his contributions to the understanding of the behavior of electronic magnetism in solids.