John Hasbrouck Van Vleck

John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (March 13, 1899 – October 27, 1980) was an American physicist and mathematician. He was co-awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977.^[2]

John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, 1974
Born	(1899-03-13)March 13, 1899 Middletown, Connecticut
Died	October 27, 1980(1980-10-27) (aged 81) Cambridge, Massachusetts
Nationality	United States
Alma mater	University of Wisconsin–Madison Harvard University
Known for	Crystal field theory Van Vleck paramagnetism Van Vleck transformations Van Vleck formula (propagator)
Awards	Irving Langmuir Award (1965) National Medal of Science (1966) ForMemRS (1967)[1] Elliott Cresson Medal (1971) Lorentz Medal (1974) Nobel Prize in Physics (1977)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	University of Minnesota University of Wisconsin–Madison Harvard University University of Oxford Balliol College, Oxford
Doctoral advisor	Edwin C. Kemble
Doctoral students	Robert Serber Edward Mills Purcell Philip Anderson Thomas Kuhn John Atanasoff Arianna Rosenbluth Carol Jane Anger Rieke

References

1. Bleaney, B. (1982). "John Hasbrouck Van Vleck. 13 March 1899-27 October 1980". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 28: 627–665. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1982.0024. JSTOR 769913.
2. "John H. van Vleck Biographical".