Portrait of Nevill Francis Mott
Date
c.1950s
Sitter
Nevill Francis Mott (1905 - 1996) , Physicist
Creator
Walter Bird (1903 - 1969, British) , Photographer
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Head and shoulders portrait of Nevill Francis Mott, inclined to and looking right of the camera as viewed. Dressed in a dark suit and tie, and white shirt.
Inscribed with the photographer’s signature in lower right-hand corner.
Sir Nevill Francis Mott (1905-1996), British physicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1936. He was awarded the Society’s Hughes Medal, 1941, Royal Medal, 1953, Copley Medal, 1972, Bakerian Award, 1953, Rutherford Memorial Award, 1962, and Humphry Davy Award, 1987. He was also joint recipient of the Nobel Prize (Physics) in 1977 for ‘fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems’.
Inscribed with the photographer’s signature in lower right-hand corner.
Sir Nevill Francis Mott (1905-1996), British physicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1936. He was awarded the Society’s Hughes Medal, 1941, Royal Medal, 1953, Copley Medal, 1972, Bakerian Award, 1953, Rutherford Memorial Award, 1962, and Humphry Davy Award, 1987. He was also joint recipient of the Nobel Prize (Physics) in 1977 for ‘fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems’.
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