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 (1899–1980)
Biography
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck was an American physicist and mathematician who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977 for his contributions to the understanding of the behavior of electronic magnetism in solids. He shared the Prize with Philip W. Anderson and Nevill Mott.