Awards & Winners

Nevill Francis Mott

Date of Birth 30-September-1905
Place of Birth Leeds
(England, United Kingdom, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom, with Dependencies and Territories)
Nationality United Kingdom
Also know as N. F. Mott
Profession Physicist
Sir Nevill Francis Mott, CH, FRS was an English 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. Mott and Anderson clarified the reasons why magnetic or amorphous materials can some times be metallic and some times insulating. In 1973 he was awarded the A. A. Griffith Medal and Prize.

Awards by Nevill Francis Mott

Check all the awards nominated and won by Nevill Francis Mott.

1977


Nobel Prize in Physics
(for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems)

1972


Copley Medal
(In recognition of his original contributions over a long period to atomic and solid state physics.)

1941


Hughes Medal
(For his fertile application of the principles of quantum theory to many branches of physics, especially in the fields of nuclear and collision theory, in the theory of metals and in the theory of photographic emulsions.)