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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nevill Francis Mott has received more than 197,197 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Nevill Francis Mott is the 293rd most popular physicist (down from 230th in 2019), the 867th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 725th in 2019) and the 35th 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

Among physicists, Nevill Francis Mott ranks 293 out of 851. Before him are Christoph Scheiner, Ettore Majorana, Yuri Oganessian, Anna Mani, Friedrich Hund, and Anne L'Huillier. After him are Pascual Jordan, Qian Xuesen, Giovanni Battista Venturi, Armen Sarkissian, John Tyndall, and George Smoot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Nevill Francis Mott ranks 50. Before him are Takashi Shimura, Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark, Jean Vigo, Lale Andersen, Prince John of the United Kingdom, and Emmanuel Mounier. After him are Ivan Serov, Daniil Kharms, Kurt Gerstein, Erika Mann, Joseph Cotten, and Hans Urs von Balthasar. Among people deceased in 1996, Nevill Francis Mott ranks 49. Before him are Georges Duby, Alain Poher, Fujiko Fujio, Timothy Leary, P. L. Travers, and Ernesto Geisel. After him are Martin Balsam, George Davis Snell, Marianne Bachmeier, František Plánička, Geoffrey Wilkinson, and Rafael Kubelík.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Nevill Francis Mott ranks 867 out of 8,785. Before him are George Canning (1770), Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443), James Gregory (1638), Andy Serkis (1964), Simon Cowell (1959), and Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (1428). After him are Boris Karloff (1887), Rishi Sunak (1980), Daniel Burley Woolfall (1852), Frederick Griffith (1879), Martin Evans (1941), and Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom (1770).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Nevill Francis Mott ranks 35. Before him are David Brewster (1781), John Cockcroft (1897), Daniel Rutherford (1749), Andrew Huxley (1917), Osborne Reynolds (1842), and Anthony James Leggett (1938). After him are Freeman Dyson (1923), James Jeans (1877), William Whewell (1794), Joseph Swan (1828), John Stewart Bell (1928), and William Sturgeon (1783).

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