What is Nevill Francis Mott?
{{Infobox scientist |name = Sir Nevill Mott |birth_name = Nevill Francis Mott |image = Mott,Nevill Francis Heisenberg 1952 London.jpg |birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1905|9|30}} |birth_place = [[Leeds]], England |death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1996|8|8|1905|9|30}} |death_place = [[Milton Keynes]], Buckinghamshire, England |nationality = British |field = [[Physics]] |workplaces = {{Plainlist| *[[University of Manchester]] *[[University of Cambridge]] *[[University of Bristol]]}} |known_for = {{Plainlist| *[[Mott problem]] *[[Mott criterion]] *[[Mott Insulator]] *[[Mott transition]] *[[Mott scattering]] *[[Mott polynomials]] *[[Seebeck_coefficient#Mott_formula_in_metals|Mott formula]] *[[Mott–Bethe formula]] *[[Space charge#Mott–Gurney law|Mott–Gurney law]] *[[Mott–Schottky equation]] *[[Mott–Schottky plot]] *[[Schottky–Mott rule]] *[[Exciton#Wannier-Mott_excitons|Wannier–Mott exciton]] *[[Pseudogap]] *[[Nevill Mott Medal and Prize|Mott Medal]]}} | alma_mater = [[University of Cambridge]] | doctoral_advisor =[[R.H. Fowler]]{{citation needed|date=November 2015}} | prizes = {{Plainlist|class=nowrap| * [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]] (1936) * [[Hughes Medal]] (1941) * [[Royal Medal]] (1953) * [[Copley Medal]] (1972) * [[A. A. Griffith Medal and Prize]] (1973) * [[Faraday Medal]] (1973) * [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] (1977)}} }} {{nobelprize|Physics}}'''Sir Nevill Francis Mott''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|CH|FRS}} (30 September 1905 – 8 August 1996) was a British [[physics|physicist]]. He won the [[Nobel Prize for Physics]] in 1977 for his work on the electronic structure of magnetic and [[Amorphous solid|disordered]] systems. He shared it with [[Philip Warren Anderson|Philip W. Anderson]] and [[John Hasbrouck Van Vleck|J. H. Van Vleck]].<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/scientists/10606.shtml BBC video] of Mott interviewed by [[Lewis Wolpert]] in 1985 (accessed 8 October 2010)</ref><ref>* {{Nobelprize}} including the Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1977 ''Electrons i