Quote of the day
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
Nevill Francis Mott
Born: September 30, 1905
Died: August 8, 1996 (aged 90)
Bio: Sir Nevill Francis Mott was an English physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1977 for his work on the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems, especially amorphous semiconductors. The award was shared with Philip W. Anderson and J. H. Van Vleck.
Known for:
- Conduction in non-crystalline materials (1987)
- Metal-insulator Transitions (1974)
- A life in science (1986)