biography
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Mott, Sir Nevill F(rancis)
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| lived:
| (1905–96)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, N England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, and became a lecturer and fellow there, working with Ernest Rutherford. He later became professor at Bristol, and in 1954 at Cambridge. He shared the 1977 Nobel Prize for Physics for his independent work on the electronic properties of disordered materials. He was influential in showing how to model the complexity of physical problems such as fracture of metals and electronic processes in disordered semiconductors. He was knighted in 1962. |
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