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Nevill Francis Mott

1905 - 1996

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Sir Nevill Francis Mott (30 September 1905 – 8 August 1996) was a British 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 sometimes be metallic and sometimes insulating. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nevill Francis Mott is the 45th most popular physicist (up from 294th in 2019), the 118th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 868th in 2019) and the 14th most popular British Physicist.

Nevill Francis Mott was most famous for his work in solid state physics. He is best known for his work on semiconductors, which led to the development of the transistor.

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Among physicists, Nevill Francis Mott ranks 45 out of 851. Before him are Lise Meitner, Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, Charles H. Townes, Pieter Zeeman, William Gilbert, and Luigi Galvani. After him are David J. Thouless, Charles Édouard Guillaume, Philip Warren Anderson, Gustav Kirchhoff, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, and Brian Josephson.

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Among people born in 1905, Nevill Francis Mott ranks 5. Before him are Jean-Paul Sartre, Ayn Rand, Howard Hughes, and Simo Häyhä. After him are Albert Speer, Dag Hammarskjöld, Viktor Frankl, Elias Canetti, Christian Dior, Henry Fonda, and Greta Garbo. Among people deceased in 1996, Nevill Francis Mott ranks 4. Before him are Baba Vanga, François Mitterrand, and Marcello Mastroianni. After him are Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Tupac Shakur, Tadeusz Reichstein, Thomas Kuhn, Carl Sagan, Gladwyn Jebb, Mohammad Najibullah, and Krzysztof Kieślowski.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Nevill Francis Mott ranks 118 out of 8,785. Before him are William Gilbert (1544), Thomas Robert Malthus (1766), John Stuart Mill (1806), Herbert Spencer (1820), David Bowie (1947), and Edgar Adrian (1889). After him are Lewis Carroll (1832), Lemmy (1945), Jeff Beck (1944), Maud of Wales (1869), Roger Taylor (1949), and Edward III of England (1312).

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Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Nevill Francis Mott ranks 14. Before him are John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842), Robert Hooke (1635), Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869), Owen Willans Richardson (1879), James Clerk Maxwell (1831), and William Gilbert (1544). After him are David J. Thouless (1934), Brian Josephson (1940), Patrick Blackett (1897), Charles Glover Barkla (1877), Paul Dirac (1902), and James Chadwick (1891).

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