Nevill Francis Mott

Sir Nevill Francis Mott CH FRS (30 September 1905 – 8 August 1996) was a British physicist. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1977 for his work on the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems. He shared it with Philip W. Anderson and J. H. Van Vleck.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Sir Nevill Mott
Born	Nevill Francis Mott (1905-09-30)30 September 1905 Leeds, England
Died	8 August 1996(1996-08-08) (aged 90) Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England
Nationality	British
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Known for	Mott problem Mott criterion Mott Insulator Mott transition Mott scattering Mott polynomials Mott formula Mott–Bethe formula Mott–Gurney law Mott–Schottky equation Mott–Schottky plot Schottky–Mott rule Wannier–Mott exciton Pseudogap Mott Medal
Awards	FRS (1936) Hughes Medal (1941) Royal Medal (1953) Copley Medal (1972) A. A. Griffith Medal and Prize (1973) Faraday Medal (1973) Nobel Prize in Physics (1977)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	University of Manchester University of Cambridge University of Bristol
Doctoral advisor	R.H. Fowler[source?]

References

1. BBC video of Mott interviewed by Lewis Wolpert in 1985 (accessed 8 October 2010)
2. • [[Category:Nobel Prize in {{{1}}} winners]] including the Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1977 Electrons in Glass
3. Sir Nevill Francis Mott
4. Mott's memories University of Bristol (accessed Jan 2006)
5. National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists Archived 31 January 2006 at the Wayback Machine Bath University