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Monte Carlo simulation of adsorption, 965 Motse ciin es. 1480, 1483 Morrison, electron distribution law. 1465 Mott, Nevil, 1456 Multistep reactions, 1166... 

Mosley David H. 90,140 Moszyhski Robert 139, 284 Mott Nevil 331 Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus 765 Mulders Norbert 827 Mulliken Robert S. 327, 331, 425, 684, 693, 764,1015-1017,1019 Mullis Kary B. 882 Murphy George M. 214 Murray Christopher W. 187, 507, 603, 605-607... 

Figure 3.18. Nevill Francis Mott (courtesy Mrs. Joan Fitch).

Frederick Seitz has recently remarked (Seilz 1998) that he has long thought that Nevill Mott deserved the Nobel Prize for this work alone, and much earlier in his career than the Prize he eventually received. 

Davis, E.A. (ed.) (1998) Nevill Mott Remini. cences and Appreciations (Taylor Francis. London). 

Similarly, Ernest Rutherford s laboratory research group at Manchester, and later at Cambridge, came to be identified with the "English school" of physics, despite the fact that Rutherford was a New Zealander who came to Manchester from McGill University in Montreal. Nevil Mott, in remembering the work of... 

Nevil F. Mott, "Obituary, Dr. R. W. Gumey," Nature 171 (1953) 910, quoted in Keith and Hoch, "Formation of a Research School," 37. 

Or, as Nevil Mott put it, "If by making approximations and neglecting even large terms. . . one could account for something that had been observed, the thing to do was to go ahead and not to worry." 150... 

Nevil Mott, "Memories of Early Days in Solid State Physics," Proc.RSL A371 (1980) 5666, on 57, quoted in S. T. Keith and Paul K. Hoch, "Formation of a Research School," on 37. 

Mott, N. F. (Nevill Francis), Sir Metal-insulator transitions/N. F. Mott.—2nd ed. p. cm. 

Gurney then collaborated with the eminent Cambridge (U.K.) physicist. Nevil Mott, to co-author a book. Electronic Processes in Crystals (1936), which provided the foundation of solid state physics. Some years later there followed Ions in Solution, the first book to treat solution J electrochemistry at a quantum level. 

A five month stay with Neville Mott at Bristol in 1948, and extended periods with Robert Mulliken at Chicago, and with the group of Hertha Sponer at Duke University in the early 1950 s set the tone for life filled with international travel. Particularly significant was a stay with the Solid State and Molecular Theory Group of John C. Slater at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. There developed a close association between Slater and Lowdin which was to last until Slater s death in 1976. 

I would like to thank Dr. R. Catterall, Professor M. J. Sienko, and Professor Sir Nevill Mott for numerous stimulating discussions on the chemistry and physics of metal solutions. I also thank Mrs. I. M. McCabe, librarian at the Royal Institution, London, for her expert assistance in helping me uncover Sir Humphry Davy s early contributions in this area, and Mr. M. Springett for his considerable help in preparing figures. The financial assistance of the SERC, The Royal Society, and NATO is gratefully acknowledged. 

Sir Frederick Charles Frank (1911-1998) received his Ph.D. in 1937 from Oxford University, followed by a postdoctoral position at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institut fiir Physik in Berlin. During World War II, Frank was involved with the British Chemical Defense Research Establishment, and because of his keen powers of observation and interpretation, he was later transferred to Scientific Intelligence at the British Air Ministry. In 1946, Frank joined the H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory at the University of Bristol under its director, Nevill Mott, who encouraged him to look into problems concerned with crystal growth and the plastic deformation of metallic crystals. A stream of successes followed, establishing his scientific fame, as evidenced by many eponyms the Frank-Read source, the Frank dislocation, Frank s rule, Frank-Kasper phases. His theoretical work has been the foundation of research by innumerable scientists from around the world. Frank was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) Medal in 1946, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1954, and was knighted in 1977. 

Dirac s penchant for silence had an accompanying effect. He worked alone. After he was appointed Lucasian Professor at Cambridge in 1932, the position once held by Sir Isaac Newton, he did not accept many research students. His colleagues knew very little about what Dirac was doing until his work appeared in completed form. Sir Nevill Mott, a Cambridge colleague who was about as close to Dirac as anyone, said, all Dirac s discoveries just sort of fell on me and there they were. I never heard him talk about them, or he hadn t been in the place chatting about them. They just came out of the sky. ... 

Gumey was a solid-state physicist connected in his earlier days with Neville Mott, the most recognized solid-state physicist of the twentieth century. J.A.V. Butler was a physical chemist, less recognized at the time of the publication I am about to describe, but nevertheless without doubt one of only four or five founders of physical electrochemistry. ... 

The name crystal-field theory tends to indicate that a complex must be immersed in a crystal, and hence that the theory is part of solid-state physics. When van Vleck was awarded the Nobel prize, in 1977, it was in fact the Nobel prize in physics, and he shared it with two other solid-state physicists, namely, Philip W. Anderson and Sir Nevill F. Mott. One may, however, also consider a complex as an isolated molecular unit. The crystal field will then be restricted to a field from the ligands of the complex. The formalism remains, however, unchanged, so one keeps the name crystal-field theory. But the theory is now more open for chemical applications. Quote van Vleck [37]. 

In a series of seminal contributions beginning in 1949, Sir Nevill Mott first posed the key question of how such an insulating, non-metallic system could naturally evolve into a metallic system. His conclusion, that such a system could undergo an insulator-to-metal transition, was perhaps not surprising what was remarkable, however, was Mott s proposal that at the very transition from insulator to metal, all the outer (valence) electrons would become free at once, not just a few... 

Electron-Electron Coulomb Repulsion—Mott Transition In 1949, Sir Neville Mott (15, 320) addressed himself to a paradoxical result... 

Professor Sir Nevill Mott deals with the important topic of developing a satisfactory theory of liquid and amorphous semiconductors. Sir NevilPs paper is of great interest because of the heavy stress he lays on the importance of knowing the nature of chemical bonds in liquid and amorphous semiconductors in order to gain an understanding of the special features of the state and properties of these substances. 

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