Nevill Francis Mott

Who was Nevill Francis Mott?

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.