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Also Known As Sir Nevill Francis Mott
Born September 30, 1905 • Leeds • England
Died August 8, 1996 (aged 90) • Milton Keynes • England
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1977) • Copley Medal (1972)
Subjects Of Study amorphous solid • electromagnetism

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Sir Nevill F. Mott at the ceremony with his Nobel Prize for Physics, 1977.
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