Sir Nevill Francis Mott (1905-1996)

Awarded the Prize “for his fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic disordered systems.”

British physicist. Mott was born in Leeds, Engl on September 30, 1905. He studied at Cambridge University, gaining his Bachelor’s degree in 1927 his ’s in 1930. From 1930 until 1933 he was Lecturer fellow of Gonville Caius College, Cambridge. He was Professor of theoretical physics at Bristol University Director of Bristol’s Physical Laboratories. He was later Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics at Cambridge University. He was a member of the Royal Society in London. Mott died on August 8, 1996 in Buckinghamshire.