Nobel Scientists | Interviews with Nobel Prize winning scientists
Sir Nevill Mott
Understanding disordered systems.
CHANNEL | Other
RECORDED | circa 1985
DURATION | 50 minutes 23 seconds
RECORDED
1985
Synopsis
Professor Nevill Mott talks about his life and academic career in this interview with Lewis Wolpert. Mott remembers teaching himself German so that he could study quantum mechanics and how this early enthusiasm led to a lifetime's work in the field of theoretical physics. He also discusses his research on semiconductors, which led to him sharing the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physics with Philip W Anderson and JH van Vleck.
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