Nevill Francis Mott

Sir Nevill Francis Mott (September 30, 1905 – August 8, 1996) was a British physicist. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1977,

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sharing the award with Philip W. Anderson and J. H. Van Vleck, who had pursued independent research.

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He was born in Leeds and was educated at Clifton College in Bristol and St. John's College, Cambridge.

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Mott's accomplishments include explaining theoretically the effect of light on a photographic emulsion (see latent image) and outlining the transition of substances from metallic to nonmetallic states.

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He died in Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire.

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