Sir Nevill Francis Mott
(1905-1996), PhysicistSitter in 8 portraits
Physicist; Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics at Cambridge University (1954-71); worked in the early 1930s on the quantum theory of atomic collisions and scattering but was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics (1977) with Philip Anderson and John Van Vleck for fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems.
by John Benton-Harris
bromide print, October 1977
NPG P795
Nobel prize winning scientists
by Arnold Newman
bromide print, 1978
NPG P150(48)
by Liam Woon
cibachrome print, 1990
NPG P446
by Godfrey Argent
bromide print, 3 June 1970
NPG x165686
Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin; Sir Nevill Francis Mott; Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd
by Arnold Newman
bromide print, 1978
NPG x24442
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