Credit: ©Godfrey Argent Studio
    Image number: RS.20404

    Portrait of Nevill Francis Mott

    Date
    c.1940s
    Sitter
    Nevill Francis Mott (1905 - 1996) , Theoretical physicist
    Creator
    Walter Stoneman (1876 - 1958, British) , Photographer
    Creator - Organisation
    J. Russell & Sons, Photographer
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    Material
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 145mm
    width (print): 95mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half-length portrait of Nevill Francis Mott turned to the left and looking left of the camera as viewed. Dressed in a black suit, a grey tie and a white shirt.

    Sir Nevill Francis Mott (1905-1996), British theoretical physicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1936. He was awarded the Society’s Hughes Medal, 1941, Royal Medal, 1953, Bakerian Award, 1953, Rutherford Award, 1962 and Humphry Davy Award, 1987. He was joint recipient with Philip W. Anderson (1923-2020) and John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899-1980) of the Nobel Prize (Physics) in 1977 'for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems'.
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